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An experiment in teaching programming languages

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To alleviate some difficulties involved in teaching programming in an introductory course, a simple programmable machine of mechanical nature with a small set of very tangible instructions is proposed. All the necessary concepts such as sequencing, looping, sub-routines and declarative statements are introduced in the framework of this machine. A number of examples are discussed which illustrate the use of this programmable machine. It is argued that a simplified version ofmost programming language is easily teachable by relating the simplified language to the concepts developed for this machine. A simplified version of Fortran is treated as an illustration.

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        cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
        ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 8, Issue 2
        June 1976
        49 pages
        ISSN:0097-8418
        DOI:10.1145/382220
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        New York, NY, United States

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