Programming Language Fundamentals by Example

PREFACE

This book is the outgrowth of approximately ten years of experimentation in education. It began when I became dissatisfied with the performance of undergraduate students in computer science studies. It seemed to me that the students were not involved in the process and that their professional skills were not improving. From that point onward, I have found myself far more involved in questions of psychology and educational pedagogy than the material itself.

Although the technical aspects of programming languages have advanced in the past ten years, students still start from the same base of knowledge. I found that students had little ...