From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10261c,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-09-11 06:11:33 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-east!supernews.com!news-feed.riddles.org.uk!skynet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!diablo.theplanet.net!news.vas-net.net!server2.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pascal.misc Subject: Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 14:01:35 +0100 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <39BCD7AF.50DD8148@brighton.ac.uk> References: <8o3s2a$9ph$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8o4bfq$v0h$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <8obv01$7hu1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <39A991F3.A8D8BED7@easystreet.com> <8ofh6j$2anb@drn.newsguy.com> <39B59223.667C085D@brighton.ac.uk> <39B932E7.90927D13@ebox.tninet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-b5.bton.ac.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 968677036 10933 194.81.199.185 (11 Sep 2000 12:57:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Sep 2000 12:57:16 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:587 comp.lang.pascal.misc:296 Date: 2000-09-11T12:57:16+00:00 List-Id: Stefan Skoglund wrote: > 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. Indeed. I'm a fan of Lynn Andrea Stein's "Rethinking CS1" approach, myself (http://www-cs101.ai.mit.edu/ipij/). ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------