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Principles of Educational Programming Language Design
Volume 23, Issue 4 (2024), pp. 823-836
Michael Kolling ^   

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https://doi.org/10.15388/infedu.2024.29
Pub. online: 10 December 2024      Type: Article      Open accessOpen
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Abstract

The principles of programming language design for learning and
teaching have been described and discussed for several decades. Most
influential was the work of NiklausWirth, describing principles such
as simplicity, modularity, orthogonality, and readability. So why is
this still an area of fundamental disagreement among educators? Why
can teachers still not agree on suitable languages for novice
programming? Why do we not have a programming language that is
designed for education and in widespread use across the world? This
paper enumerates and describes educational language design principles
in the context of current systems and technologies and discusses why
interpretation of these principles shifts as our discipline
progresses. We evaluate what these principles mean in our current
world, and why a common agreement has not developed. We discuss the
relative benefits of pedagogical languages vs. industry languages and
articulate why every generation of learners needs their own language.

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