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From: mgreen@cs.toronto.edu (Marc Green)
Subject: SEEKING SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHING A LANGUAGES COURSE
Message-ID: <90Aug8.173401edt.7886@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: 8 Aug 90 21:34:24 GMT
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I'm teaching a two term course in programming languages. I want to
stress principles rather than specific languages. I'm finding it a
difficult subject to teach. Last year, I ran through "features" (data
structures, control structures, etc.) the first term and languages the
second. It didn't seem to work well that way.

I'm hoping to ge some suggestions from the more experienced on good
ways to organize such a course. I'm also looking for suggestions on
useful readings.

Thanks.

Marc Green
Trent University