Use of Program Schemata in Lisp Programming: an Evaluation of its Impact on Learning

Issue title: Programming Theory, Information System Engineering, Software Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Bieliková, Maria^; | Návrat, Pavol

Affiliations: Slovak University of Technology, Dept. of Comp, Sci, and Eng. Ilkovièova 3, 812 19 Bratislava, Slovakia. E-mail: {bielik, navrat}@elf.stuba.sk

Note: [] The work reported here was partially supported by Slovak: Science Grant Agency project No. G1/4289/97.

Abstract: In the paper, we describe our approach and experience with teaching fundamentals of functional programming by program schemata construction and explanation. Program schemata for processing of lists are presented. Our approach reflects our ultimate goal – to support the learning process. As the main result, we report on experiments that allow to judge quite favourably the approach to teaching functional (Lisp) programming when the student learns a set of program schemata and how to apply them.

Keywords: program schema, functional programming, Lisp

DOI: 10.3233/INF-1998-9102

Journal: Informatica, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 5-20, 1998