Abstract:A paradigmatic approach in teaching FORTRAN programming language has been successfully implemented in the past.The present paper summarizes the results of a pilot experiment conducted to verify the effectiveness of this approach among students.About seventy-five engineering students who took a course in FORTRAN using a paradigmatic approach were instructed to construct problems from their areas of specialization.The constructed problems were compared to the paradigms they had used and a similarity measure was … Show more
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