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A Debate over the Teaching of a Legacy Programming Language in an Information Technology (IT) Program
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Ali, Azad; Smith, David – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2014
This paper presents a debate between two faculty members regarding the teaching of the legacy programming course (COBOL) in a Computer Science (CS) program. Among the two faculty members, one calls for the continuation of teaching this language and the other calls for replacing it with another modern language. Although CS programs are notorious…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Information Technology, Computer Science Education, Comparative Analysis