From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: is Ada still being used for teaching at universities?
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:26:02 +0200
Date: 2011-03-28T10:26:02+02:00 [thread overview]
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:17:31 +0200, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote:
> Le Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:58:01 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov
> <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a �crit:
>> True, but I am uncertain what is better to Ada, being taught to many
>> students or being used by a lesser number but for some practical work.
> Depends on what will go in the future: will they become decisioners ? Will
> they keep some good memories from what they learned about Ada ?
No, I mean that things being taught are often ignored or hated by students.
Practical work leaves a deeper imprint. In general I am a bit sceptical
about teaching programming languages. Programming is not a science and
languages are even less than science. They'd better learn fundamental
things, e.g. math.
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-12 1:33 is Ada still being used for teaching at universities? Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-03-12 12:01 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-13 13:22 ` John McCormick
2011-03-13 13:40 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-03-14 13:23 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-03-15 16:00 ` Lucretia
2011-03-15 17:21 ` Pascal Obry
2011-03-15 19:16 ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-15 19:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-27 23:17 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-28 8:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2011-03-28 10:25 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-28 12:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-28 17:53 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-27 23:12 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-28 21:56 ` richard
2011-03-29 7:30 ` stefan-lucks
2011-03-14 11:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-27 23:20 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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