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Modula-2 versus C++ as a first programming language—some empirical results

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Martin Hitz,

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SIGCSE '95: Proceedings of the twenty-sixth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 317 - 321

https://doi.org/10.1145/199688.199838

Published: 15 March 1995 Publication History

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The success of an experiment of using C++ as a first programming language for students of a specific type of computer science is presented.

The paper motivates the shift from Modula-2 to C++ in the curriculum, shortly describes the course and discusses the statistical evaluation of the results of the last Modula-2 course and the first C++ course, respectively.

The main findings of the study are the fact that in contrast to most expectations, the shift from a typical “educational” language to a much “dirtier” language had no significant effect to the performance of the students taking the course.

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SIGCSE '95: Proceedings of the twenty-sixth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

March 1995

436 pages

ISBN:089791693X

DOI:10.1145/199688

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Cary Laxer
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN
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Curt M. White
Indiana Univ., Fort Wayne and Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
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James E. Miller
Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
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Judy Gersting
Univ. of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 27, Issue 1
March 1995
402 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/199691
Editors:
Curt M. White
Indiana Univ., Fort Wayne and Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
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James E. Miller
Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
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Cary Laxer
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN
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Judy Gersting
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