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From: nick@cs.hw.ac.uk (Nick Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: CS-1
Keywords: beginning computer science course
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Date: 3 May 89 16:44:12 GMT
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In article <2130@iitmax.IIT.EDU> thssccb@iitmax.IIT.EDU (catherine c bareiss) writes:
>I am designing a beginning programming course.
>
>The structure is to be as follows:
>       One day a week, a lecture on a topic (using psuedo code).
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Is this a good idea? I know it is becoming more and more common to do this
but I harbour deep suspicions that it might actually make the learning task
more confusing. I would be interested in people's comments on the use of
pseudo-code as an aid to programming language teaching - especially for
teaching a first language.

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