Teach Programming or Teach a Programming Language — blog.acthompson.net

For me, teaching is all about the concepts. Programming languages change. My first programming language was FORTRAN. This was the big language with I was in university. Today? Not so much. But loops and decision structures still exist. Over my career, I have learned a bunch of programming languages. I’m not sure I want to know how many but its a lot. This morning I was reading Mark Guzdial’s blog as one does (Why we should explore more than one programming language across the curriculum) which comes as I am looking hard at my school’s computer science curriculum.  We teach several programming languages. Visual Basic in our freshmen course, App Inventor for our mobile app development course, C# in honors programming, JavaScript in AP CS Principles, and Java in AP CS A. SO potentially students can learn a bunch of languages during their time here.

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