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Teaching good programming techniques

Teaching good programming techniques TEACHING GOOD PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUE S J . L . Lowther and Z . C . Mottele r Michigan Technological Universit y A goal of any programming clas s should be to design and write readable , understandable, and correct programs . To o often, a beginning programming class wil l cover language features and generat e examples illustrating language features , presenting very little, if anything, concerning proper programming style an d methodology . At Michigan Technologica l University, such a situation exists . C S 110, Basic FORTRAN, is a multisection tw o quarter hour course taught by instructor s from a wide variety of backgrounds , Because of the time constraints of th e course, very little beyond the basic features fo FORTRAN may be taught . Student s who emerge from this course can typicall y produce "correct" programs, in the sens e that these programs do what they ar e supposed to in a sort of minimal sense , but poor programming practices are rife . Programs are riddled with hopelessly complicated control structures, output i s poorly formatted and there is often n o heading to tell what it is, programs hav e http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Association for Computing Machinery

Teaching good programming techniques

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin , Volume 8 (4) – Dec 1, 1976

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Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Copyright
Copyright © 1976 by ACM Inc.
ISSN
0097-8418
DOI
10.1145/382222.382457
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Abstract

TEACHING GOOD PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUE S J . L . Lowther and Z . C . Mottele r Michigan Technological Universit y A goal of any programming clas s should be to design and write readable , understandable, and correct programs . To o often, a beginning programming class wil l cover language features and generat e examples illustrating language features , presenting very little, if anything, concerning proper programming style an d methodology . At Michigan Technologica l University, such a situation exists . C S 110, Basic FORTRAN, is a multisection tw o quarter hour course taught by instructor s from a wide variety of backgrounds , Because of the time constraints of th e course, very little beyond the basic features fo FORTRAN may be taught . Student s who emerge from this course can typicall y produce "correct" programs, in the sens e that these programs do what they ar e supposed to in a sort of minimal sense , but poor programming practices are rife . Programs are riddled with hopelessly complicated control structures, output i s poorly formatted and there is often n o heading to tell what it is, programs hav e

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ACM SIGCSE BulletinAssociation for Computing Machinery

Published: Dec 1, 1976

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