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Marketing the programming languages course

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Programming languages as a required course is disappearing from undergraduate computer science programs. This is not surprising given that the course often proves to be challenging for faculty to teach and unpopular among students. The author argues that the best way to convince departments to retain this material is to emphasize the benefit to undergraduates of stretching their understanding of programming early in their careers.

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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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