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Why teach programming languages in this day and age and how to go about it

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The question is not whether a computing curriculum should include a rigorous course on programming languages, but which topics make up the minimum that we wish every student to understand, and how we should teach these topics.

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      cover image ACM SIGPLAN Notices
      ACM SIGPLAN Notices  Volume 43, Issue 11
      November 2008
      137 pages
      ISSN:0362-1340
      EISSN:1558-1160
      DOI:10.1145/1480828
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