The prevailing paradigm in teaching elementary programming uses Java as the first programming language and the “objects first” approach as the conceptual basis. This approach has several shortcomings, e.g., high drop-out rates and poor skills in basic constructs like loops. This paper suggests an alternative approach that combines a strong start in basic constructs with early object-orientation...

1.1 Abstract Oz is a higher-order concurrent constraint programming system under development at DFKI. It combines ideas from logic and concurrent programming in a simple yet expressive language. From logic programming Oz inherits logic variables and logic data structures, which provide for a programming style where partial information about the values of variables is imposed concurrently and in...

Scripting is a programming technique in which applications are constructed by composing specially designed, pre-packaged software components using a restricted set of scripting operators. Scripting simplifies programming by cutting down the number of the syntactic and semantic features found in a complete programming language, yet is inherently open-ended in that software components can be prov...

This research is focused on determining the impact of web-based learning tools in computer programming language for instructional delivery education universities Enugu State. 74 second-year students from State University and Nigeria participated this research. Due to manageable size population, a total population sampling technique was adopted. The Visual Basic Programming Achievement Test (VBP...

Currently, the paradigm of algebraic programming becomes one of the most important paradigms of declarative programming. Algebraic programming is based on methods of term rewriting [1], which are widely used independently and in programming systems based on other paradigms (in functional, logical, object-oriented, and agent-based programming, in computer algebra and systems of theorem proving)....

This report is a detailed study of the application of functional programming to a typical problem in engineering computing||nite element structural analysis. The report assumes no prior knowledge of structural analysis, but does presume some familiarity with the Miranda programming language. It begins by showing how a basic linear algebra (BLAS) library can be built in Miranda, to perform eleme...

This work aims to develop a performant relational database management system, HeisenBase, in the functional programming language Haskell. Much work has been published with the intent to create sensible interaction layers between the Haskell programming language and existing database software. We build the DBMS itself in Haskell in order to understand the benefits and drawbacks of a Haskell-base...

Kolmogorov complexity theory is used to tell what the algorithmic informational content of a string is. It is defined as the length of the shortest program that describes the string. We present a programming language that can be used to describe categories, functors, and natural transformations. With this in hand, we define the informational content of these categorical structures as the shorte...

Initial teaching of programming typically stresses language and program implementation issues, rather than design. We suggest a focus on reusability offers a way to introduce design at an early stage. Our approach is based on a general model for understanding reusability. It allows students to understand some basic design issues that assist programming language learning and program implementati...

We investigate the well-known PRAM model of parallel computation as a practical parallel programming model. The two components of this project are a general-purpose PRAM programming language called Fork95, and a library, called PAD, of eecient, basic parallel algorithms and data structures. We outline the primary features of Fork95 as they apply to the implementation of PAD. We give a brief ove...