This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third IFIP Conference on the History of Computing and Education, held at the 20th World Computer Congress in Milano, Italy on September 7-10, 2008. The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information[...]
The aim of this text is to define the principal elements in the science of computing. Presentation of the C language is integrated with other topics throughout the book. This approach fosters the use of programming as a problem-solving tool and places programming in the broadest possible context.[...]