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SIGPLAN
2008
14 years 11 days ago
Injecting programming language concepts throughout the curriculum: an inclusive strategy
As research in programming language design, implementation, and application advances, we must regularly revisit the undergraduate curriculum to ensure course content advances simi...
Mark W. Bailey
SIGPLAN
2008
14 years 11 days ago
Languages and performance engineering: method, instrumentation, and pedagogy
Programs encounter increasingly complex and fragile mappings to computing platforms, resulting in performance characteristics that are often mysterious to students, practitioners,...
Doug Lea, David F. Bacon, David Grove
SIGPLAN
2008
14 years 11 days ago
Some thoughts on teaching programming and programming languages
It is argued that the teaching of programming is central to the education of skilled computer professionals, that the teaching of programming languages is central to the teaching ...
John C. Reynolds
SIGPLAN
2008
14 years 11 days ago
Single global lock semantics in a weakly atomic STM
As memory transactions have been proposed as a language-level replacement for locks, there is growing need for well-defined semantics. In contrast to database transactions, transa...
Vijay Menon, Steven Balensiefer, Tatiana Shpeisman...
SIGPLAN
2008
14 years 11 days ago
Verified enforcement of stateful information release policies
Many organizations specify information release policies to describe the terms under which sensitive information may be released to other organizations. This paper presents a new a...
Nikhil Swamy, Michael Hicks
SIGPLAN
2008
14 years 11 days ago
Programming languages in a liberal arts education
Liberal arts curricula emphasize breadth of a student's educational experience, critical reasoning, and intellectual discourse to a greater degree than pre-professional train...
Kim B. Bruce, Stephen N. Freund
SIGPLAN
2008
14 years 11 days ago
An aspect-oriented approach to the undergraduate programming language curriculum
Three key forces are shaping the modern Computer Science (CS) curriculum: (1) new topics/courses are squeezing out existing ones; (2) a focus on "big picture" and interd...
Mark A. Sheldon, Franklyn A. Turbak