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Special Issue of Informatics in Education Dedicated to Niklaus Wirth

Niklaus Wirth
ETH Zurich / Andreas Bucher
Niklaus Wirth passed away on January 1, just a few weeks before his 90th birthday. His contributions to Computer Science education, in particular making programming accessible to non specialists, cannot be stressed enough. But it has been tried: he rightfully received the Turing award in 1984 “for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages, EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA, Oberon,” and for us as educators probably most importantly – Pascal.

In his memory, Juraj Hromkovič and I edit a special volume of Informatics in Education. We welcome all submissions that deal with programming languages designed for educational purposes. The abstract deadline is February 20.

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