Treffer: TEACHING MULTIPLE LANGUAGES CONCURRENTLY.

This paper investigates the issue of teaching multiple undergraduate introductory programming languages during the same semester. The languages taught were C, Java, COBOL and Visual Basic. The same large programming project was assigned to each class. An analysis was done as to which language proved to be the most challenging while teaching the project requirements. Additionally, student's perceptions of the project is also discussed. This project model introduces the programming concepts at critical times during the duration of the project. The systematic process of creating a well-designed project leads to a significant coding effort on the part of the first time programmer. However, depending on the language that is being taught, variations in the amount of time spent on a specific task as well as when the task is introduced is a requirement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]