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From: riddle@emory.uucp (Larry Riddle)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Semester Projects needed for Pascal course
Keywords: Pascal, projects
Message-ID: <3489@emory.uucp>
Date: 8 Dec 88 18:23:06 GMT
Organization: Math & Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta
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Next semester I will be teaching a course on "Introduction to Computer
Science" using Pascal. I was thinking that it would be nice to have
some major programming project that the students would work on
throughout the semester, writing additional parts as we learn the
appropriate pascal language and computer science theory. Has anyone
tried this in a first programming course? I would welcome any
suggestions on possible projects. For example, two possible projects
might be writing a simple text editor or writing a simple symbolic
differentiation program. I would like that the project require as much
of the standard theory as possible, e.g. recursion, pointers, linked 
lists, other data structures, etc.

Any ideas or thoughts about this, either pro or con, would be
appreciated. Thanks.

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