Using L&rate Programming to Teach GocNI Programming Praetkes
Stephen Shum · 1994
The ability to comprehend a program written by other individurds is beeotning increasingly important in sotlsvare development and maintenanoc. In an attempt to encourage undergraduate Computer Science students to write informative and usable documentation, the literate programming paradigm was incorporated into the teaching of one undergraduate Computer Scienee course at Augustana College, This paper describes the concept of literate programming, the experience of using literate programming to teach good programming practices, and the reaulta from the experiment that showed that literate programming encourages more documentation.