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Integrating Scripting Programming Language Instruction into IT Curricula

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The objective of this paper is to offer IT academicians one potential open-source solution to the escalating challenge that confronts each of us regarding how to optimally teach Scripting Programming Languages [1] (Web scripting language “WSL”) within severely constrained teaching curricula. The outcome, additionally, is to promote creativity within academia that will generate the correct instructional solution for a given university situation. Specifically, this paper is for those who desire 1) their students to be as well-prepared, as possible, for post- graduate employment; and 2) their program to receive positive feedback from industry for preparing quality students.

Web scripting languages (WSL) constitute a specific group of programming languages that are application-specific (browsers for the Internet), and are used to program Web pages and to control Internet usage. WSL tend to favor rapid development over efficiency of execution, and, normally, are interpretive rather than compiled languages.

WSLs addressed in this study are shown in Figure 1.

Tool Popularity of Usage % Usage

ASP.NET 6 0.5 Java (JSP) 1 22 Perl/Mason 3 7 PHP 2 9 Python 4 3 Ruby/Rails 5 0.5

Figure 1 Web Scripting Languages

WSLs, in Figure 1, are extracted, by the authors, from the published survey by Tiobe Software [2] from the top fifty programming languages, and their ranking by Tiobe Popularity Index and the percentage of usage is shown.

Computing Instruction Challenges A variety of academic computing instruction challenges are addressed in this paper, namely:

1. Several parallel, competing computer instructional programs exist at a given institution of higher education, e.g. Computer Science (CS), Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Information Systems (IS), and Information Technology (IT). 2. Each computer instruction program, frequently, is constrained by a total number of core instruction credit-hours permitted by its college or university. 3. Computer technology, both hardware and software, continues to grow at seemingly unmanageable rates.

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Romney, G., & Gonzales, R. (2006, June), Integrating Scripting Programming Language Instruction Into It Curricula Paper presented at 2006 Annual Conference & Exposition, Chicago, Illinois. 10.18260/1-2--1346