Programming for the Humanities - Logic and Adaptable Languages

Jerzy Karczmarczuk

2016

Abstract

We argue in favour of teaching modern programming to students of “non-scientific” undergraduate disciplines (humanities), considering that computer-assisted learning should not be reduced to the usage of tools, but provides some answers to the question: how the knowledge is built. The computer science should be treated as an inherent part of their culture. We advocate the teaching of Logic Programming languages: Prolog, and of the Constraint Programming languages, such as CHR. Logic programming permits to formulate the computational problems and their solutions in a form more close to human reasoning than several other languages, and adaptable to the domains of interest of the learners.

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Karczmarczuk J. (2016). Programming for the Humanities - Logic and Adaptable Languages . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-179-3, pages 298-305. DOI: 10.5220/0005791202980305


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@conference{csedu16,
author={Jerzy Karczmarczuk},
title={Programming for the Humanities - Logic and Adaptable Languages},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2016},
pages={298-305},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005791202980305},
isbn={978-989-758-179-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Programming for the Humanities - Logic and Adaptable Languages
SN - 978-989-758-179-3
AU - Karczmarczuk J.
PY - 2016
SP - 298
EP - 305
DO - 10.5220/0005791202980305