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BoxScript: a component-oriented language for teaching

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ACMSE '05 vol 1: Proceedings of the 43rd annual ACM Southeast Conference - Volume 1

Pages 349 - 354

https://doi.org/10.1145/1167350.1167447

Published: 18 March 2005 Publication History

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As component-oriented approaches become increasingly pervasive in the development of complex software systems, it becomes increasingly important to introduce computing science students to appropriate programming concepts, languages and techniques. This paper describes the design of the component-oriented language BoxScript, which seeks to address the needs of teachers and students for a clean, simple language. This paper first enumerates the principles applied in the language design and then presents the key concepts and features of BoxScript. The paper illustrates the language features by using an example and by comparing it with several other component-oriented programming languages.

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BoxScript: a component-oriented language for teaching
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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Shukla RMarwala T(2013)Component Based Software Development Using Component Oriented ProgrammingProceedings of International Conference on Advances in Computing10.1007/978-81-322-0740-5_137(1125-1133)Online publication date: 2013
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0740-5_137
Liu YCunningham HJohn DKerr S(2007)Java in the boxProceedings of the 45th annual ACM Southeast Conference10.1145/1233341.1233351(47-52)Online publication date: 23-Mar-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1233341.1233351
Fabresse LDony CHuchard M(2006)SCLProceedings of the 14th international conference on Advances in smalltalk10.5555/1763416.1763421(91-110)Online publication date: 4-Sep-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1763416.1763421

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