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Choosing the “First Computer Language” is still a crucial issue. While the debate is quite often conducted on the language level, the arguments for making the choice are rather of much deeper methodological, didactical, and non-technical nature.
Here, we describe the decision process that lead us to choose Modula-3 as the first language to be taught to informatics students at the Universität Klagenfurt and report on the experience gained.
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Mittermeir, R., Böszörmenyi, L. (1997). Choosing Modula-3 as “mother-tongue”. In: Mössenböck, H. (eds) Modular Programming Languages. JMLC 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1204. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-62599-2_50
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