Everything about Self (programming language)

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Self (programming language)A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Bridging self-regulated learning gaps with large language models: designing metacognitive scaffolding in programming learningInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Hunger GamesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Integrative self-sorting is a programming language for high level self-assemblyCited 171 times
5. Go sideways: MetaclassA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: SmalltalkA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Integrative self-sorting is a programming language for high level self-assembly

  Wei Jiang, Christoph A. Schalley · 2009 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 171 citations

• Improving students' understanding of basic programming concepts through visual programming language: The role of self-efficacy

  Chun-Yen Tsai · 2019 · Computers in Human Behavior · 135 citations

• Pictures worth a thousand tiles, a geometrical programming language for self-assembly

  Florent Becker · 2009 · Theoretical Computer Science · 11 citations

• Programming language implementations for context-oriented self-adaptive systems

  Nicolás Cardozo, Kim Mens · 2022 · Information and Software Technology · 8 citations

• Self-assessment procedure VIII: a self-assessment procedure dealing with the programming language Ada

  Peter Wegner · 1981 · Communications of the ACM · 6 citations

• SEL--A self-extensible programming language

  G. Molnar · 1971 · The Computer Journal · 2 citations

• SELF-EFFICACY IN LEARNING C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

  Engr. Ronald John C. Sayson · 2019 · Globus An International Journal of Management & IT · 2 citations

• The effect of python programming language teaching on 7th grade students programming self-efficacy skills

  Feryad Doğuş, Yasin Özkan, Sibel Barın Özkan · 2024 · Education Mind · 0 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Bridging self-regulated learning gaps with large language models: designing metacognitive scaffolding in programming learning

  Fangfang Zhu, Xinyu Ji, Zhijia Mou · 2026 · Interactive Learning Environments · 1 citations

• Determinant factors of distance self-learning performance on computer programming language education - a concept map approach

  Melissa T. A. Simarmata, Gwo-Guang Lee, Hoky Ajicahyadi · 2023 · Education and Information Technologies · 1 citations

• EvaLooop : A Self-Consistency-Centered Framework for Assessing Large Language Model Robustness in Programming

  Sen Fang, Weiyuan Ding, Mengshi Zhang · 2026 · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Hunger GamesSuzanne Collins · 2008
• Catching FireSuzanne Collins · 2009
• MockingjaySuzanne Collins · 2010
• Goal-Based Decision MakingStephen Slade · 1993
• English review manualJames A. Gowen · 1965
• Gramática estructural de la lengua españolaHelena Beristáin · 1975
• Passport to FrenchCharles Berlitz · 1974
• 📕PortugueseJack Lee Ulsh · 1975

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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