A discussion of the teaching of large, introductory courses in programming in the early days-using the Terak and Macintosh computers and the development of integrated programming environments that implement language-aware editing capabilities.

Tim Teitelbaum carried a major load in the teaching end of the department, especially the intro programming courses. In the late 1970’s, Tim, along with PhD student Tom Reps, took advantage of the new desktop computer, the Terak, to build the Cornell Program Synthesizer, a seminal, ground-breaking environment for developing and testing programs. Cornell immediately adopted it for their intro Pascal courses, and its use spread to many other universities. Tim and Tom went further to develop the Program Synthesizer Generator, to make it easier to create such environments for any language, and turned it into a general tool for static analysis of programs.

In 1988, they founded GrammaTech to promote its use. Now, Grammatech, with over 20 PhD employees, is a leading developer of software-assurance tools and advanced cyber-security solutions. Tim became Prof Emeritus in 2010 to devote full time to GrammaTech.

Tim and David talk about the teaching of large, introductory courses in programming in the early days using the Terak and Macintosh computers and the development of integrated programming environments that implement language-aware editing capabilities.

Running Time: 36 min. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40865