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Experiences teaching data structures with Java

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SIGCSE '97: Proceedings of the twenty-eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 164 - 168

https://doi.org/10.1145/268084.268143

Published: 01 March 1997 Publication History

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This paper describes our experiences incorporating Java in a Data Structures course. We describe the features of Java that made for a more interesting course, the difficulties that we encountered, and compare Java to the prior languages used in this course, Ada and C++. All in all, we found Java to be a reasonable, but not overwhelming better, alternative. Our students were particularly happy with the experiment.

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Frens J(2004)Taming the tigerACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/1028174.97135636:1(151-155)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2004
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Experiences teaching data structures with Java
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Model curricula
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
      2. Language types

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SIGCSE '97: Proceedings of the twenty-eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

March 1997

410 pages

ISBN:0897918894

DOI:10.1145/268084

Chairmen:
Curt M. White
Rosary College, River forest, IL
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Carl Erickson
Grand Valley State Univ., Allendale MI
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Bruce Klein
Grand Valley State Univ., Allendale, MI
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James E. Miller
Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 29, Issue 1
March 1997
388 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/268085
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