From: Ed Falis <falis@thomsoft.com>
Subject: Re: Choosing C++ instead of Ada
Date: 1996/10/30
Date: 1996-10-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3277529B.5F0C@thomsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 552tcg$opv@explorer.csc.com
I had an interesting discussion with the HS computer teacher at my son's
school about the AP exam.
He'd been using Pascal for the programming classes, but felt under some
pressure to make sure that those kids who wanted to take the AP exam
would be prepared. The school was seriously considering C++ to replace
Pascal.
Although I'd have preferred to recommend Ada (and in fact have passed
along a copy of ObjectAda), I suggested he use java for several reasons:
B. Meyer's recommendations for how to teach programming (start as a
client of packages), relative
simplicity of java (to C++), ease of producing something through use of
the java environment packages, the "cool" factor, and sufficient
syntactic (and semantic) similarity to C++ to give kids who want to
take the AP exam a sound platform for learning C++.
He's implemented this, and it's working very well so far.
Maybe once I've piqued his curiosity with ObjectAda, he'll want to
introduce Ada into the mix as well.
--
Ed Falis
Thomson Software Products
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-09 0:00 What is Ada used for??? Sean Roehnelt
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Aron Felix Gurski
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <AE817A13-1E0BE@206.107.67.30>
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Jin Xue Kuang
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Jason Smith
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada (was What is Ada used for?) Richard Riehle
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-22 0:00 ` whiting_ms@corning.com (Matt Whiting)
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada Stanley R. Allen
1996-10-24 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Poutanen Olavi
1996-10-25 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Andrew Dunstan
1996-10-25 0:00 ` John DiCamillo
1996-10-26 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-10-28 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Rush Kester
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Ed Falis [this message]
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Thomas Kendelbacher
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-30 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Poutanen Olavi
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada (was What is Ada used for?) Kazimir Majorinc
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-26 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Arlene S. Felton
1996-11-04 0:00 ` nasser
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