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@Article{Solntseff:1978:PLI,
  author =       "N. Solntseff",
  title =        "Programming languages for introductory computing
                 courses: a position paper",
  journal =      j-SIGCSE,
  volume =       "10",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "119--124",
  month =        feb,
  year =         "1978",
  CODEN =        "SIGSD3",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/990654.990600",
  ISSN =         "0097-8418 (print), 2331-3927 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0097-8418",
  bibdate =      "Sun Nov 18 07:38:04 MST 2012",
  bibsource =    "http://portal.acm.org/;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigcse1970.bib",
  note =         "Papers of the SIGCSE\slash CSA Technical Symposium on
                 Computer Science Education.",
  abstract =     "This paper examines the question of the programming
                 language to be used in introductory computing courses.
                 It is found that there are three distinct groups of
                 students that have to be catered for in introductory
                 courses: the ``casual user'', the ``general user'', and
                 the ``professional user''. The manner in which the
                 introductory courses fit into the student's curriculum
                 are examined next and an analogy is developed between
                 ``structured programming'' and teaching. This analogy
                 is used to draw conclusions concerning the descriptive
                 properties of the pedagogic language to be used. Issues
                 concerning the modularity of both data and procedure
                 structures are reviewed and the emergence of
                 programming languages specifically designed to enhance
                 their descriptive powers in this area is noted. It is
                 concluded that there is a need for a pedagogic language
                 that can be used in all courses in which the computer
                 is an object of study and that the most commonly used
                 languages, namely, FORTRAN and PL/I fail to meet the
                 requirements deduced in this paper. At the present
                 time, Pascal is the only widely known language that can
                 be considered for this role.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  fjournal =     "SIGCSE Bulletin (ACM Special Interest Group on
                 Computer Science Education)",
  journal-URL =  "http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?idx=J688",
}

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