Computability in an Introductory Course on Programming
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The programming approach to computability presented in the textbook by Kfoury, Moll, and Arbib in 1982 has been embedded into a programming course following the textbook by Abelson and Sussman. This leads to a course concept teaching good programming practice and clear theoretical concepts simultaneously. Here, we explain some of the main points of this approach: the halting problem, primitive and μ-recursive functions and the operational counterpart of these functions, i.e., the Loop and the While programs.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001