Led by the success of environments like Scratch (see the figure appearing later in this column) and initiatives like Code.org’s Hour of Code, block-based programming is now an established part of the ...

Schulthess; Edouard Marmier; Rudolf Schild, and Michael Franz, all of whom have significant contributions in computer science. Most developers today posted on social media that Pascal was one of the ...

Niklaus Wirth’s achievements and accomplishments in the field of computer science are far-reaching. He is probably best known for the programming language he developed, Pascal. However, his impact ...

Wirth received a Turing Award in 1984 for his contributions to computer science ... various programming languages throughout his life, with one of the most significant being Pascal.

I have spent most of my career working on computer science (CS) education ... Pascal was the language of choice, I began teaching CS1 and CS2 at Stanford. Over the next few years, I saw the transition ...

Until his death, he continued to work on the Oberon programming ... in education as well as outside it. Despite languages like Pascal having only a small presence in today’s world of computer ...

Dr. Wirth started a computer science department. When he tried to identify which programming language he would teach, he found the options too complex. He began working on Pascal, and in 1971 he ...