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In Praise of Scripting: Real Programming Pragmatism
July 2008 (vol. 41 no. 7)
pp. 22-26
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Ronald P. Loui, "In Praise of Scripting: Real Programming Pragmatism," Computer, vol. 41, no. 7, pp. 22-26, July, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MC.2008.228,
author = {Ronald P. Loui},
title = {In Praise of Scripting: Real Programming Pragmatism},
journal ={Computer},
volume = {41},
number = {7},
issn = {0018-9162},
year = {2008},
pages = {22-26},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2008.228},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Ronald P. Loui, Washington University in St. Louis
The author recommends that scripting, not Java, be taught first, asserting that students should learn to love their own possibilities before they learn to loathe other people's restrictions.

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Index Terms:
scripting, programming languages, computing curricula, software engineering
Citation:
Ronald P. Loui, "In Praise of Scripting: Real Programming Pragmatism," Computer, vol. 41, no. 7, pp. 22-26, July 2008, doi:10.1109/MC.2008.228
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