Functional programming
- 10 August 1992
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGPLAN Lisp Pointers
- Vol. VI (2) , 43-48
- https://doi.org/10.1145/174186.174192
Abstract
The current secondary school computer science curriculum, which culminates in the AP exam, provides students with a misleading picture of the discipline, and many young thinkers are turned off by the rigidity and pettiness of syntax-heavy languages like BASIC and Pascal. This paper describes an introductory course that uses functional programming techniques to emphasize the analytical and problem solving aspects that make computer science so interesting, while avoiding the tedium associated with traditional approaches. A course based on this approach has proven very successful in encouraging students to further their study of the discipline.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: