Hi, as part of my bachelor thesis on the design of programming languages for teaching mathematics in the 21st century, I have planned to discuss the evolution of (the) major programing languages which focus on the idea that computer programming could play an integral role in STEM education.
In order to analyze different programming languages as a framework for teaching (primarily) mathematical concepts, I am currently searching for (citable) research projects providing insights into the historical development of educational programming languages. – Are you familiar with any research on the evolution of educational programming languages?
Many thanks in advance for your contributions,
Tobias
You have to look at the paradigms of programming languages:
see for instance
https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/paradigms_lectures/lecture1.html
Programming Languages: Principles and Paradigms book
https://www.amazon.fr/Programming-Languages-Principles-Maurizio-Gabbrielli/dp/1848829132#reader_1848829132
Dear Azedine Boulmakoul, thank you very much for your answer! – Unfortunately, I don’t really understand how „paradigms of programming languages“ are key relevant when analyzing the „evolution of educational programming languages“: Educational programming languages are primarily designed as an instrument for learning programming and therefore don’t represent specific paradigms, but rather utilize them?!
As I already mention in my previous post, I am instead seeking for research on the evolution of educational programming languages …
Cordially,
Tobias
Dear Jorge Andrés Sánchez-Duque – Your given answer referring to an article on „Medical education in times of pandemic: the case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)“ has absolutely no relation to my actual question on the „historical development of educational programming languages“ and should therefore be removed, as it seems to serve only the purpose of promoting your own scientific research ...
YES Tobias ... do not forget paradigms ... they can help you in your investigations.
Precisely, look at the indexes of use of programming languages (tiobe index for example) ... the evolution of educational programming languages must be particularly interested in the paradigms of these programming languages.
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
How to explain the rank of the C language? (procedural paradigm ..) Why python is widely used? (object paradigm). is it the object paradigm that explains the use of this language !? or quite simply, it is more used by non-computer scientists where the principles of the object paradigm and strong typing are completely ignored?
Good luck !
Many thanks for your comment Somnath Paulchoudhury! – I completely agree with you that a deeper and, above all, more extensive analysis of the development of educational programming languages should also focus on professionally used programming languages like Fortran, MatLab, Python, Julia and R ...
Cordially,
Tobias
Dear Azedine Boulmakoul, thank you very much for your contributions!
While reading your (rhetorical) questions, I realized that a more detailed discussion of different programming techniques and corresponding paradigms is closely linked to the evolution of programming languages itself and thus to the emergence of educational programming languages ... - Thank you very much for this valuable input!
All the best,
Tobias
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