Thoughts on Learning Human and Programming Languages
Software Engineering
2024-07-24 v1 Computers and Society
Abstract
This is a virtual dialog between Jeffrey C. Carver and Daniel S. Katz on how people learn programming languages. It's based on a talk Jeff gave at the first US-RSE Conference (US-RSE'23), which led Dan to think about human languages versus computer languages. Dan discussed this with Jeff at the conference, and this discussion continued asynchronous, with this column being a record of the discussion.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2407.15907,
title = {Thoughts on Learning Human and Programming Languages},
author = {Daniel S. Katz and Jeffrey C. Carver},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.15907},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
submitted version of a Software Engineering Department column now published as: D. S. Katz and J. C. Carver, "Thoughts on Learning Human and Programming Languages," Computing in Science & Engineering, v.26(1), Jan.-Mar. 2024