With a sharp rise in the adoption of technology throughout the younger generation there is a sudden need for more technologically focused teaching methods in the educational sector. Many applications and websites offer games to students in order to decrease the learning curve associated with challenging subject matter. However, very few of these games have striven to teach high level programmin...

In this paper, a required introductory programming course being taught to MIS undergraduates using the C++ programming language is described. Two factors make the objectives of the course—which are to provide students with an exposure to the logical organization of the computer in addition to teaching them basic programming logic—particularly challenging to achieve. First, students enter the co...

The 2LP system is a step in the “Operatica Program,” a project whose grand design is to provide an elegant and powerful programming language environment for combining AI and OR methods for decision support software systems. The term “Operatica” was coined by J.L. Lassez to suggest an analogy with the Mathematica system which provides a programming environment for symbolic mathematical computati...

When teaching concurrency, using a process-oriented language, it is often introduced through a visual representation of programs in the form of process network diagrams. These diagrams allow the design of and abstract reasoning about programs, consisting of concurrently executing communicating processes, without needing any syntactic knowledge of the eventual implementation language. Process ne...

This paper presents one proposal for teaching the foundations of object oriented programming using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) as one modeling language and Java as one object oriented programming language. Unlike other approaches where only two types of UML diagrams are used with the intention of transferring them to a codification (class diagram and sequence diagram, or class diagram a...