@InProceedings{Boeszoermenyi1997c, author = {Böszörmenyi, Laszlo and Mittermeir, Roland}, booktitle = {Modular Programming Language}, title = {Choosing Modula-3 as "Mother Tongue"}, year = {1997}, address = {Heidelberg}, editor = {Mössenböck, Hans-Peter}, month = mar, pages = {382}, publisher = {Springer}, series = {LNCS}, abstract = {Choosing the "First Computer Language" is still a crucial issue. While the debate is quite often conducted on the language level, the arguments for making the choice are rather of much deeper methodological, didactical, and non-technical nature. Here, we describe the decision process that lead us to choose Modula-3 as the first language to be taught to informatics students at the Universität Klagenfurt and report on the experience gained.}, issn = {0302-9743}, language = {EN}, talktype = {none} }