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Re:Using Programming Language Concepts to Teach General Thin... by Jtsummers on Thursday May 25, 2017 @10:06AM (#14417359)
I may be misreading the article, but the author doesn't suggest having the students write a DSL, but using DSLs with students so that they can focus on the specific problem domain. Think things like (classically) Logo, or recently Scratch.
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Re:Using Programming Language Concepts to Teach General Thin... by mannykannot on Thursday May 25, 2017 @10:37AM (#14417568)
I believe that approach is also mentioned, but I was referring to section 5, "Potential Teaching Approaches", and specifically 5.1, "Domain Specific Language": "This approach would organize the course around designing and implementing a language for computations in a particular domain."
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