Teaching history of programming languages to undergraduate students

Author

Pérez-Quinones, Manuel A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Puerto Rico Univ., Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

4-7 Nov. 1998

Firstpage

301

Abstract

More emphasis should be placed on the history of computing in university curricula. The area of programming languages is no exception and has lots of history to study. This paper discusses the approach followed to study the history of programming languages in the Computer Engineering Program at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez. The proceedings for History of Programming Languages (HOPL) Conferences are used as reference for a term paper. This paper describes the parts of the term paper, some of the comments given by students, future changes to the methodology and some observations in general about teaching history of programming languages.

Keywords

computer science education; educational courses; history; programming languages; teaching; Puerto Rico; programming languages history education; teaching; undergraduate students; university curricula; Computer industry; Computer languages; Education; Games; Hardware; History; Microwave ovens; Operating systems; Optimizing compilers; Technological innovation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 1998. FIE '98. 28th Annual

Conference_Location

Tempe, AZ, USA

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4762-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.1998.736853

Filename

736853