From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_20 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 28 Oct 92 16:56:29 GMT From: seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net (Michael Feldman) Subject: Re: Help me with Educational Use for Ada on Sparcs Message-ID: <1992Oct28.165629.5611@seas.gwu.edu> List-Id: In article <1992Oct28.001306.21569@beaver.cs.washington.edu> pattis@cs.washingt on.edu (Richard Pattis) writes: > [good stuff deleted] >FYI: The primary growth language in CS 1/CS 2 are Ada and Scheme. C/C++ looks >to have a bright future (all the publishers are lining up books) but it is >still unproven in these courses compared to Ada and Scheme (about 50 schools >seem to use Ada/Scheme). Pascal is still dominant, but not growing. You probably meant to say that about 50 schools use Ada in CS1 and about 50 schools use Scheme. This is the case, according to the latest Reid Report. Actually, the Ada number is closer to 60, including the military academies of Australia and Belgium. I guess those foreigners must be far more primitive than us Americans - our military academies must be much too advanced to use Ada in CS1 :-) Adding another 40 or so schools that don't use Ada in CS1 but introduce it in CS2 (including the Air Force Academy but not the others), we actually get about 100 colleges and universities doing first-year Ada. The Reid Report shows 22 C schools and 6 C++ schools, so currently, about twice as many schools use Ada in CS1 as use C and C++ combined. The current Reid Report summarizes data submitted voluntarily over the net by 331 schools. I don't know whether the data is representative of the other languages. The Ada information is authoritative. Reid and I shared our data; my data came from CREASE, Reid, my own gleanings, publishers, etc. I don't think we are missing a lot of Ada schools. The Reid Report covers _only_ CS1, by the way. Copies on request. Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman co-chair, SIGAda Education Committee Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science School of Engineering and Applied Science The George Washington University Washington, DC 20052 USA (202) 994-5253 (voice) (202) 994-5296 (fax) mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) "Americans wants the fruits of patience -- and they want them now." ------------------------------------------------------------------------