From: briand@bonette.UUCP (Michel briand)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Applicative Languages in Teaching Computer Science
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:43:01 GMT
Organization: enst-bretagne Brest, FRANCE

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Here is the second announcement of the workshop on Applicative 
Languages in Teaching Computer Science organized in France on 
March 93. 

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*	2 nd Workshop	                                        *
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*	Applicative Languages in Teaching Computer Science	*
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*	RENNES (IFSCIC-IRISA)	                                *
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*	(25--26 mars 1993)	                                *
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*	co-organized with SPECIF	                        *
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*	(Societe des Personnels Enseignants et Chercheurs	*
*	en Informatique de France)	                        *
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Teaching computer science as a discipline in graduate courses is 
leading a growing number of universities and graduate schools to 
experiment with the use of functional languages. 

Functional languages such as Lisp, Scheme, ML and Miranda 
constitute a fertile terrain for laying the foundations of a culture 
in computer science. Introducing functions, as proper objects 
enable the underlaying phenomena of computer science to be 
approached using examples of a reasonable size. The notion of 
function constitutes a fixed reference point in a perpetually 
changing hardware environment.

Applicative Languages are closer to mathematics and their 
syntactic simplicity leave room for the imagination and for trying 
out new procedures and/or coding. Their derivatives among which 
can be counted systems of formal calculus, enable new approach in 
mathematical pedagogy.
..After the success of the first workshop (MRT Paris, March 91), 
and the multiplication of experiments we are organizing this 
second workshop on applicative languages in the teaching of 
computer science on March 25,26 at Rennes (France).. 

The main aim of this workshop is to relate the paths explored and 
to promote and diffuse more widely the experiments and the 
pedagogical materials associated with it. Moreover, this seminar 
will encourage a debate about the exact place for introducing the 
concepts of computer science into the school curriculum, and the 
way they fit in with the teaching of other subjects. 

We hope to receive papers presenting research into the 
contribution of applicative languages in computer science teaching, 
or describing or analysing experiments based on this approach..


Acts of the workshop will be published by SPECIF. 


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-	Program Committee	              -
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- Michel Briand (ENST Bretagne)               -
- Pierre Casteran (Universite de Bordeaux)    -
- Guy Cousineau (ENS Ulm)	              -
- Veronique Donzeau-Gouge (CNAM-IIE)	      -
- Daniel Herman (IFSCIC, IRISA)               -
- Jean-Franois Perrot (Laforia)	      -
- Christian Queinnec (Polytechnique-INRIA)    - 
- Daniel Ribbens (Universite de Liege)	      -
- Jean-Claude Royer (Universite de Nantes)    - 
- Emmanuel Saint James (Bull, LITP)	      -
- Harald Wertz (Universite de St Denis)       -
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* dead lines for :	        *
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* abstracts : November 92, 15   *
* articles : January 93, 30     *
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Michel Briand Dept Informatique et Reseaux Telecom Bretagne 
LIASC (Lab. Intelligence Artific. et Systemes Cognitifs) 

ENST Bretagne	e-mail : briand@enstb.enst-bretagne.fr
BP 832	tel : (33) 98 00 12 80
29285 Brest Cedex	fax : (33) 98 00 12 82
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