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The choice of the first-course programming language for a university-level computer science curriculum has pedagogical ramifications in terms of comprehensibility and mastery of fundamental concepts. This paper compares the merits of Java and Modula-3 as a firstcourse language.
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The paper was written on a sabbatical leave at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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Böszörményi, L. Why Java is notmy favorite first-course language. Software - Concepts & Tools 19, 141–145 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003780050017
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