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SIGCSE
2000
ACM
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13 years 12 months ago
Object-orientation in Java for scientific programmers
Scientific programmers have traditionally programmed in entirely sequential languages such as Fortran, C or Pascal and it could be argued that object-orientation is not a concept ...
Judith Bishop, Nigel Bishop
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Taming Java for the classroom
Java is the canonical language for teaching introductory programming, but its complex syntax and abundance of constructs are difficult for beginners to learn. This paper shows how...
James I. Hsia, Elspeth Simpson, Daniel Smith, Robe...
FLOPS
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Convergence in Language Design: A Case of Lightning Striking Four Times in the Same Place
What will a definitive programming language look like? By definitive language I mean a programming language that gives good soat its level of abstraction, allowing computer science...
Peter Van Roy
ISSEP
2010
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Object-Oriented Modeling of Object-Oriented Concepts
Teaching introductory object-oriented programming presents considerable challenges. Some of these challenges are due to the intrinsic complexity of the subject matter — object-or...
Michela Pedroni, Bertrand Meyer

Book
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15 years 5 months ago
Java for the Beginning Programmer
"Java for the Beginning Programmer teaches Java to someone with absolutely no programming background. This book focuses on core programming topics such as variables, looping, ...
Jeff Heaton