Name
Title | ||
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Designing Grace: Can an introductory programming language support the teaching of software engineering? |
Abstract | ||
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Many programming language constructs that support software engineering in the large - explicit variable declarations, explicit external dependencies, static types, information hiding, invariants-provide little benefit to the small programs written by novice programmers, where every extra syntactic token has to be explained and understood before novices can succeed in running even the simplest program. We are designing Grace, a new educational object-oriented language that we hope will prove useful for teaching both programming and software engineering. This paper describes some of the tradeoffs between teaching programming and teaching software engineering that we faced while designing Grace, and our attempts to address those tradeoffs. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2013 | 10.1109/CSEET.2013.6595253 | Software Engineering Education and Training |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
computer aided instruction,computer science education,object-oriented languages,software engineering,teaching,Grace programming language,educational object-oriented language,introductory programming language,novice programmers,software engineering,teaching | Programming language,Programming in the large and programming in the small,Programming paradigm,Software engineering,Computer science,Component-based software engineering,First-generation programming language,Software construction,Programming language theory,Software development,Social software engineering | Conference |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
1093-0175 | 1 | 0.43 |
References | Authors | |
4 | 4 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Noble | 1 | 1683 | 163.52 |
| Michael Homer | 2 | 46 | 10.38 |
| Kim B. Bruce | 3 | 1169 | 168.81 |
| Andrew P. Black | 4 | 1566 | 366.84 |