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From: Stefan Skoglund <stetson@ebox.tninet.se>
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Subject: Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide
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John English wrote:
> 
> Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > I was yesterday totally flabbergasted when I heard that the Math+IT faculty
> > will teach the next generation programming with Java as introductionary
> > course!
> 
> Expect some interesting times... examples might include (from a 2nd
> year group I taught, having taught Ada as a first language in their
> 1st year):

note also that you need to imprint real early on a small taste
of OOP.

Understanding a bit about objects is necessary if you want
something like Hello World.

Early on it is good if the student can try ideas (even stupid ones) and
get immediate results ie like a language like ML or LISP.

The student shouldn't need to handle such technicalities like files
or units and so on.