Event-driven programming is used in many fields of modern Computer Science. In event-driven programming languages user interacts with a program by triggering the events. We propose a new approach that we denote command-event driven programming in which the user interacts with a program by means of events and commands. We describe a new programming language, T2Script, which is based on command-e...

Using the setting of a writing workshop to facilitate a deliberate process to learn computer programming, this exploratory study investigates where there is a natural overlap between programming and writing through the storytelling motif, and to what extent existing language arts coursework and pedagogy can be leveraged to introduce this new form of digital composition to middle-school children...

This paper is an extended abstract of parts I and II of a monograph with the same title being prepared by the authors. Logic was developed before the arrival of computers and it can be presented without reference to them. The main idea of the monograph is to stress the mutual links between logic and computer programming by taking those parts of logic which deal with computability and nitary log...

This paper presents a practical method of adding problem-specific notation to an established computer language. Our idea is to use unrestricted operator overloading as a tool to map the problem domain notation directly into an existing programming language. Our method introduces new operator symbols and function names into a host language by overloading existing usage. We extend the host progra...

Nowadays, there are several programming languages, which are found to be difficult for a novice programmer to understand. According to Robins [RRR03], students have often difficulties in building mental model of computer programs, since a programming language differs from the structure of natural language. Even when the students have learned the programming concepts and languages, they may stil...

1 Juris Reinfelds, New Mexico State University, Klipsch School of EE & CE, Box 30001 dept 3-0, Las Cruces, NM 88003 [email protected] Abstract  For too long computer programming has been treated as an art or a craft rather than as a science or an engineering discipline. The Kernel Language approach provides a precise and concise basis for programming in all paradigms (imperative, logical, functio...

1 James Wolfer, Associate Professor of Computer Sciences, Indiana University South Bend, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, 1700 Mishawaka Ave., South Bend, IN 46615 USA, [email protected] 2 Haroun R. A. Rababaah, Adjunct Lecturer in Computer Science, Indiana University South Bend, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, 1700 Mishawaka Ave., South Bend, IN 46615 USA, hraba...

Introduction: Internal radiation dosimetry is important from a radiation protection point of view and can help to optimize the radiation dose delivered to the workers, public, and patients. It has a rather simple protocol but needs a large amount of data. Therefore, it is difficult to do on a routine basis. The use of computer programs makes internal radiation dosimetry simpler...

We present two examples of microworlds built into the Smalltalk environment for the purpose of teaching the main concepts of object oriented programming (OOP) and of the Smalltalk programming language. The distinguishing features of our microworlds are that each of them presents the student with a sequence of environments. These environments introduce one OOP concept after another, and disclose...