Linguistic aspects of programming

The difficult pedagogy of programing programming requires levels of rigor and detail unfamiliar to most college freshman, in all linguistic aspects (syntax, semantics and pragmatics)

Linguistic aspects of programming

	The difficult pedagogy of programing
	A spectrum of semantic complexity the "product" of programming may be static data, an active program, or an interactive program (programming is like writing, but most like writing for performance, and especially for an interactive performance)

Linguistic aspects of programming

	The difficult pedagogy of programing
	A spectrum of semantic complexity
	Computer Science and pedagogy programming is in some sense pedagogy: we teach the (literal, stupid) machine to do (complex, interactive) things

Linguistic aspects of programming

	The difficult pedagogy of programing
	A spectrum of semantic complexity
	Computer Science and pedagogy
	Rigorous and unfamiliar syntax in addition to new semantic domains, the programmer must master a new language, likewise ranging over several levels of abstraction, never so similar to natural language

Linguistic aspects of programming

	The difficult pedagogy of programing
	A spectrum of semantic complexity
	Computer Science and pedagogy
	Rigorous and unfamiliar syntax
	Harsh (and capricious) pragmatics the context of programming and its tools (compilers, etc.) are extremely demanding of precision, but sometimes unhelpful and even "buggy"

Linguistic aspects of programming

	The difficult pedagogy of programing
	A spectrum of semantic complexity
	Computer Science and pedagogy
	Rigorous and unfamiliar syntax
	Harsh (and capricious) pragmatics
	Computers and programming versus "Computer Science" while computers and programming form the basis for Computer Science, it is by no means the whole story (compare movie projectors to Film Studies, books to Literature, TVs to Media Studies, etc.)

Linguistic aspects of programming

	The difficult pedagogy of programing
	A spectrum of semantic complexity
	Computer Science and pedagogy
	Rigorous and unfamiliar syntax
	Harsh (and capricious) pragmatics
	Computers and programming versus "Computer Science"
	What kind of discipline is Computer Science? Computer Science is hard to place: it involves writing, art (creative thinking and expression), design (trade-offs), engineering (standard practices), science (measurement and analysis)