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A top-down approach to teaching programming

Published:1995-03-15 Issue:1 Volume:27 Page:6-9
ISSN:0097-8418
Container-title:ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
language:en
Short-container-title:SIGCSE Bull.

Author:

Reek Margaret M.¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Computer Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, 102 Lomb Memorial Drive, Roehester, NY

Abstract

Programming is traditionally taught using a bottom-up approach, where details of syntax and implementation of data structures are the predominant concepts. The top-down approach proposed focuses instead on understanding the abstractions represented by the classical data structures without regard to their physical implementation. Only after the students are comfortable with the behavior and applications of the major data structures do they learn about their implementations or the basic data types like arrays and pointers that are used. This paper discusses the benefits of such an approach and how it is being used in a Computer Science curriculum.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/199691.199696

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