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Subject: Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide
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Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > Understanding a bit about objects is necessary if you want
> > something like Hello World.
> 
> No, you can make a perfectly good "Hello World" without objects.
Dont you need to create a subclass of some obscure Java
class to even generate a program with a null body ??

> > The student shouldn't need to handle such technicalities like files
> > or units and so on.
> 
> A file is an important generic concept used by most languages (including
> OOP ones).  The same for units, or modules.
> 
> Why do you get the idea that they are useless technicalities?

Because in the beginning of CS1 you don�t really need persistent storage
of your work. You as a teacher would prefer not getting questions like
this:

Pupil: I'm working with a small a little bit of trigonometry.
      Why is the system bitching about no cos ?

Teacher: you need to add something like this '-lm'

What I'm saying is this: a language which is likened by programmer
professionals isn't implicitly a good way of expression for students
which
has started programming for the first time.