From: "Stanley R. Allen" <s_allen@hso.link.com>
Subject: Re: Do college AP tests require C++ knowledge?
Date: 1997/12/09
Date: 1997-12-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <348DBAFF.52BF@hso.link.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 66cqhg$ama$1@walter.cs.umd.edu
Charles Lin wrote:
>
> You can get some of these answers, I suspect, by just heading
> out to the Web page for the AP stuff (probably www.collegeboard.org
> or www.ets.org), and they probably have a telephone number as well.
> But, yes, I believe the tests are making the transition to C++.
>
This is a problem. C is much more of a lingua franca than
C++, like FORTRAN was 20 years ago. Also, many educators
are seriously opposed to basing the student's education on
C++ and instead prefer Java, Ada 95, or Eiffel.
--
Stanley Allen
mailto:s_allen@hso.link.com
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-12-02 0:00 Do college AP tests require C++ knowledge? Robert S. White
1997-12-02 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-12-02 0:00 ` Tim Ottinger
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Scott P. Duncan
1997-12-03 0:00 ` Jeremy Beal
1997-12-03 0:00 ` m0nik3r
1997-12-07 0:00 ` Charles Lin
1997-12-09 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen [this message]
1997-12-09 0:00 ` David Weller
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Richard Pattis
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1997-12-10 0:00 tmoran
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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