[plt-scheme] Leads on Liberal Arts Education and Programming

On Apr 11, 2008, at 2:47 AM, Benjamin L. Russell wrote:
> How about the following paper?
>
> "Educational Pearl:  The Structure and Interpretation
> of the Computer Science Curriculum,"
> by Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew
> Flatt, and Shriram Krishnamurthi
> http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/fffk-htdp-vs-sicp-journal/paper.pdf
>
> This paper discusses the design rationale for HtDP.
> In particular, it details the differences between HtDP
> and SICP, and describes why HtDP is more suited to
> teaching programming to beginners than SICP.  (I'm
> somewhat surprised that nobody else on this list,
> including the authors, has mentioned it yet. ;-))
>
> Another paper that I would suggest is the following (I
> don't have a URL for this one, but here is a
> reference):
>
> K. B. Bruce, A. Danyluk, and T. Murtaugh. Why
> structural recursion should be taught before arrays in
> CS1. In Proc. 36th SIGCSE Technical Symp. on Computer
> Science Education (SIGCSE), pages 246--250, St. Louis,
> Missouri, Feb. 2005. ACM Press.

http://www.cs.williams.edu/~andrea/Publications/p266-bruce.pdf

--Kevin