Modern computer programming languages are governed by complex syntactic rules. They are unlike natural languages; they require extensive manual work and a significant amount of learning and practicing for an individual to become skilled at and to write correct programs. Computer programming is a difficult, complicated, unfamiliar, nonautomated, and a challenging discipline for everyone; especia...

Computer programming is a “two-way thinking process.” The programmer must think and implant his/her thought in the computer in the form of code. In return, the computer must think like the programmer in the way of output. Compilation is the only initial accurate way of confirming that the programmer and the computer are thinking the same way. In case of novice programmers, the compiler feedback...

As computer software becomes increasingly used in analysis and design in all engineering disciplines, more engineering programs have started including computer programming in their common core for all engineering majors. C++ is a popular programming language that’s been chosen for teaching engineering students programming. At California Baptist University, EGR 12

In computer programming there are different language levels ranging from a list of numbers representing electrical signals to very high level languages with commands similar to English. One of these high level language categories is called Declarative Programming, wherein rules to attain a goal are specified to the computer instead of a list of commands. I have spent this semester prototyping m...

Debugging is the process of locating and fixing errors in computer programs. Debugging is essential in software development and almost every programming language has its own specialized tools for the task, with high variability regarding their debugging power. This paper briefly describes ongoing research towards a Ph.D. thesis on universal debugging, a proposal to develop a program debugging f...

This paper examines the use of the C# programming language for a first course in computer programming in an engineering curriculum. C# is an object-oriented programming language that incorporates language features from C, C++, Java, and Delphi. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo has been using C# in its Introduction to Computing course for the pa...

This project report attempts to evaluate the educational properties of a relatively new computer language named Python. This is done by examining computer language evolution history, related scientific background work, the existing educational research on computer languages and Python’s experimental application in higher secondary education in Greece, during first half of year 2002. How applica...

Computer technology has influenced the realm of language teaching and testing so drastically that no language teaching program could be imagined nowadays without the use digitized software and mul- timedia. This study aims at investigating Iranian EFL learners' performance on paper-based test com- pared with their performance on computer-based test while considering their attitudes towards the ...

What will a definitive programming language look like? By definitive language I mean a programming language that gives good solutions at its level of abstraction, allowing computer science researchers to move on and work at higher levels. Given the evolution of computer science as a field with a rising level of abstraction, it is my belief that a small set of definitive languages will eventuall...