2971	 SP k A System for Teaching Computer Programming	 SP k is a compatible subset of the PL I language that has been designed for teaching programming. The features of the SP k language were chosen to encourage structured problem solving by computers to make the language easy to learn and use to eliminate confusing and redundant constructs and to make the language easy to compile. The resulting language is suitable for in troducing programming concepts used in various applications including business data processing scientific calculations and non-numeric computation. SP k is actually a sequence of language subsets called SP SP ...SP . Each subset in troduces new programming language constructs while retaining all the constructs of preceding subsets. Each subset is precisely defined and can be learned or implemented without the following subsets. programmer education universities community colleges high schools PL I SP k minicomputers programming language design teaching programming in troductory computing
