Supporting Programming by Analogy in the Learning of Functional Programming Languages
JUDY WHITTLE, Alan Bundy, H. Lowe · 1997
This paper examines the difficulties in learning new programming languages and addresses ways to overcome these difficulties. In particular, we concentrate on the functional programming language ML. ML is increasingly being used for teaching and research. It has many features such as recursion, pattern matching and typing that present problems for the novice programmer. We have implemented a program editor, C