Use of Program Schemata in Lisp Programming: an Evaluation of its Impact on Learning
Volume 9, Issue 1 (1998): Special Issue on Programming Theory, Information System Engineering, Software Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence, pp. 5–20
Pub. online: 1 January 1998
Type: Research Article
The work reported here was partially supported by Slovak: Science Grant Agency project No. G1/4289/97.
Received
1 January 1998
1 January 1998
Published
1 January 1998
1 January 1998
Abstract
In the paper, we describe our approach and experience with teaching fundamentals of functional programming by program schemata construction and explanation. Program schemata for processing of lists are presented. Our approach reflects our ultimate goal – to support the learning process. As the main result, we report on experiments that allow to judge quite favourably the approach to teaching functional (Lisp) programming when the student learns a set of program schemata and how to apply them.