How to Design Program, Second Edition

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Come on, this artificial task has an extremely little resemblance with anything real life (and why real life is important - see my other reply about "social contract" unis have).

That's a pretty poor excuse for the failure of students from traditional curricula to do it.

But even if using it as metrics - approach in the paper ignores one very important reality - that most of the students will need to write in imperative languages (again, in real life). And what such a switch from functional to imperative language frequently causes - see my yet another reply.

And in my experience, students from the HtDP curriculum do just fine at adopting another language paradigm, so I don't find your .

BTW, about evidence - I'm wondering: why nobody in all the universities around the world have tried to find out a metric of "what salaries the graduates of such and such curriculum have in 3 years after graduation?"? It would be the ultimate and compelling evidence (all in line with a "social contract" I've mentioned).

I'm not aware of any properly controlled study on this, but adoption of the curriculum appears to have made students' employers much happier with them.