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- From: gupta@nmsu.edu (Gopal Gupta)
- Newsgroups: comp.theory
- Subject: Logic Programming as an Introductory Programming Paradigm
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.154723.19001@nmsu.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 15:47:23 GMT
- Sender: usenet@nmsu.edu
- Organization: NMSU Computer Science
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- Call for Participation
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- Logic Programming as an Introductory
- Programming Paradigm
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- Informal Birds-of-a-Feather Session
-
- Joint International Conference and
- Symposium on Logic Programming '92
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- Tuesday, Nov 10th, 1992
- 6:00PM -- 8:30PM
-
- Organizers: J. Reinfelds and G. Gupta
-
- This informal session is devoted to discussion on using the logic
- programming paradigm to teach programming to beginners. The emphasis
- is on teaching logic programming (rather than Prolog), and the aim
- is to induce beginners to learn ``declarative thinking." This approach
- can be contrasted with the functional programming approach that has
- been becoming increasingly popular recently.
-
- The discussion is open to all the participants in the conference who
- are invited to present their views on (but not limited to) the
- following issues:
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- 1) Why is Logic Programming a more suitable paradigm for teaching
- programming to beginners?
- 2) Is there a need for using LP for this purpose, or is FP enough, or
- is some other approach better?
- 3) How to evaluate the success of such an enterprise?
- 4) Your experiences related to using LP to teach programming to
- beginners.
-
- Dissenting views are specially welcome.
-
- As part of the session we will relate our experience with using LP
- (and a closely co-ordinated sister course in discrete Math and Logic)
- to teach programming to Freshman students at New Mexico State. Others
- are welcome to relate their experiences too.
-
- Please note that the primary focus of the session will be on teaching
- logic programming to beginner programmers. Discussion related to teach-
- ing Logic Programming to people other than beginners is not encouraged.
-
- Please send email (to gupta@nmsu.edu or juris@nmsu.edu) if you are
- interested in participating. Please indicate in your email if you just
- want to attend the session or whether you intend to present a short
- position paper too.
-
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- Gopal Gupta
- Department of Computer Science email: gupta@nmsu.edu
- Box 30001, Dept. 3CU gupta@compsci.bristol.ac.uk
- New Mexico State University Ph: +1 (505) 646 6236
- Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001 Fax: +1 (505) 646 6218
- USA
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