C in education and software engineering

After an introduction to programming via C, there are wide-ranging consequences. Section 5 is a catalogue of such consequences. It is undoubtedly lopsided in that my concrete experience is largely ne gative. Some brief sorties are made into ‘might ha ve beens’ but the y are generally not substantiated by my o wn experience. The y are however supported by appropriate citations from the literature. I hope that the negative content will be of value to the CS teaching, practicing and research community by helping to prevent the repetition of mistakes.

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