{"title":"A New Simple Programming Language for Education","authors":"A. Rababaah","doi":"10.1109/ICCSE49874.2020.9201755","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the development of a new small programming language named SIMPLE, \"Simple Imperative-Model Programming Language for Education. The motivations for the development of this new language stems from the lack of literature for practical efforts and guidelines to develop programming languages bottom-up from scratch. We believe that exposing students to the process of creating a programming language carries significant educational benefits and real experience in a serious project. Further, we discuss the language grammar and demonstrate its main elements and features. The new language has been tested extensively using 60+ programs designed to evaluate all elements of the language","PeriodicalId":350703,"journal":{"name":"2020 15th International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE)","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2020 15th International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCSE49874.2020.9201755","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper presents the development of a new small programming language named SIMPLE, "Simple Imperative-Model Programming Language for Education. The motivations for the development of this new language stems from the lack of literature for practical efforts and guidelines to develop programming languages bottom-up from scratch. We believe that exposing students to the process of creating a programming language carries significant educational benefits and real experience in a serious project. Further, we discuss the language grammar and demonstrate its main elements and features. The new language has been tested extensively using 60+ programs designed to evaluate all elements of the language