Bertrand Meyer is giving a conference the next February 11th, 2009 at the Universidad Tecnologica Nacional (National Technological University) called "Touch of Class: How we teach introductory programming".This is the abstract of the conference: "Teaching programming faces a host of challenges, due in particular to he unprecedented variety of student backgrounds and to the demands of the IT industry. Techniques that worked well in the seventies do not scale up to today's context. The "concepts or skills?" debate is more relevant than ever, especially...
