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From: mbennett@midas.UUCP (Mike Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Semester Projects needed for Pascal course
Message-ID: <1543@midas.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 88 19:03:54 GMT
References: <3489@emory.uucp>
Organization: Gould CSD, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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in article <3489@emory.uucp>, riddle@emory.uucp (Larry Riddle) says:
> 
> Next semester I will be teaching a course on "Introduction to Computer
> Science" using Pascal. I was thinking that it would be nice to have
> some major programming project that the students would work on
> throughout the semester, writing additional parts as we learn the
> appropriate pascal language and computer science theory. 
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In my Pascal class we were given the assignment of writing a parser for
a subset of Pascal. I thought this was a great way to introduce us not
only to the basics of structured programming in Pascal but also to how
things really work in a language. As I look back, we weren't tested on
our understanding of the parser knowledge, only on the Pascal constructs
and programming. This assignment also required us to write a lexical
analyzer. I picked up a lot from this class, needless to say.


Mike Bennett
Languages Development