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HAGGIS is a high-level reference programming language used primarily to examine Computing Science for Scottish pupils taking SQA courses on the subject. HAGGIS is used as a tool to bridge the gap between pseudocode and typical computer programming. HAGGIS is not based on any one language but a mixture that is intended to allow a pupil familiar with any of the many languages used in classrooms to easily understand the syntactic construct being used in an example. It has multiple programming paradigms of functional, imperative and object-oriented to suit this purpose. There are three separate language definitions, one for each level at which computing is assessed by the SQA; these are proper subsets of each other, so for example any program contained by the National 5 level language is also well-defined at Higher and Advanced Higher levels. Higher includes the definition of procedures and functions and the use of record types and files, while Advanced Higher includes object-orientation. Online HAGGIS interpreters have been developed to provide a way for examiners and teachers to check their programs are correctly defined and behave as expected.

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  1. Quintin Cutts, Richard Connor, Greg Michaelson, and Peter Donaldson. 2014. Code or (not code): separating formal and natural language in CS education. In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education (WiPSCE '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 20-28. DOI=https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2670757.2670780
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  4. "Reference language for Advanced Higher Computing Science Question Papers". SQA. http://www.sqa.org.uk/files_ccc/ComputingScienceReflanguageSpecificationsSQPAH.pdf. 
  5. "HAGGIS Working Document". Page 4. http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~greg/Teaching%20Computing/Haggis%202.docx. 
  6. Tennant, Mark, J. "Haggis – what should it be used for?". http://www.compednet.com/2014/03/04/haggis-what-should-it-be-used-for/. 
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