The dream of a common language: The search for simplicity and stability in computer science education

SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 115-119

  Roberts, Eric ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer science education; CS1; Java; Teaching libraries

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; CS1; PROFOUND INSTABILITY; TEACHING LIBRARIES;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TEACHING;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 33646854218     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: 00978418     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1028174.971343     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (14)

1. Hal Abelson, Kim Bruce, Andy van Dam, Brian Harvey, Allen Tucker, and Peter Wegner. Letter opposing APCS change. Communications of ACM, June 1995.
2. Owen Astrachan, Robert (Corky) Cartwright, Gail Chapman, David Gries, Cay Horstmann, Richard Kick, Frances Trees, Henry Walker, and Ursula Wolz. Recommendations of the AP Computer Science ad hoc committee, October 2000.
3. Frederick P. Brooks. No silver bullet: Essence and accidents of software engineering. Computer, April 1987.
4. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel. Java How to Program (fifth edition). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002.
5. The Economist. Setting Sun? Unattributed article in the business news summary from July 26, 2003.
6. Cay S. Horstmann and Gary Cornell. Core Java 2 - Volume I: Fundamentals (sixth edition). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002.
7. Kathleen Jensen and Niklaus Wirth. Pascal User Manual and Report (third edition). New York: Springer-Verlag, 1985.
8. Elliot B. Koffman and Ursula Wolz. Problem Solving with Java. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1998.
9. John Lewis and William Loftus. Java Software Solutions: Foundations of Program Design, Update JavaPlace (third edition). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002.
10. Richard Rasala, Jeff Raab, and Viera K. Proulx. Java Power Tools: Model software for teaching object-oriented design. Proceedings of the Thirty-second SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, February 2001.
11. Stuart Reges. Can C# replace Java in CS1 and CS2? Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, June 2002.
12. Eric Roberts and Gerald Engel (editors). Computing Curricula 2001: Final Report of the Joint ACM/IEEE-CS Task Force on Computer Science Education. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, December 2001. http://www.acm.org/ sigcse/cc2001/.
13. Walter Savitch. Java: An Introduction to Computer Science and Programming (third edition), Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003.
14. Chris Stevenson. Java engagement for teacher training: Proposal for a pilot project to help local secondary computer science teachers develop expertise in Java programming. ACM memorandum, August 2002.