Resumen
Viewed as an art and a science among professionals and academics, computer programming retains its significance in any teaching or training program in the field of computing. With the unbelievable rise in personal computing and wide acceptance of inexpensive, user-friendly operating systems and productivity tools, programming may have lost its place as a major activity in the modern world of computing. Now careers in Information Technology, are not necessarily built out of programming skills only. As a matter of fact, working knowledge of a programming language is not considered adequate and must be supplemented by familiarity with different working environments. Now that computer science has emerged as a separate discipline in itself, a first course in programming usually aims at teaching basic programming concepts, data and control structure and good programming style, emphasizing goto-less programming, structured modular design, data abstraction, well-defined control structures, and the like.