The difficulty of teaching programming languages, and the benefits of hands-on learning

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Georgia Institute of Technology

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Massachussetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

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Communications of the ACM Volume 57 Issue 7July 2014pp 10–11https://doi.org/10.1145/2617658

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Mark Guzdial considers the "poor learnability" of programming languages, while Philip Guo enumerates some practical benefits to working in a CS lab.

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The difficulty of teaching programming languages, and the benefits of hands-on learning
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education

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Communications of the ACM Volume 57, Issue 7
July 2014
98 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/2622628
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