From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
Subject: Re: Why is Ada a good choice for an ambitious beginner to programming
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 18:51:39 -0800
Date: 2003-01-10T02:42:41+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E1E353A.3EC76758@adaworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: AC5DB0D990D0A1D6.F2CB0856B3D0B8FB.5E813FD4FE8781FE@lp.airnews.net
"John R. Strohm" wrote:
> MIT uses Scheme in the first-semester freshman programming course. See
> "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", by Abelson and Sussman.
UC Cal at Berkeley was doing the same for a while. Have not checked recently
to see if they still are.
The important idea here is that any respectable computer science program should
ensure that students understand both imperative and functional programming.
Scheme,
Haskell, ML, or some other functional language will do just fine for the
functional
language. Ada is probably a good choice for the imperative language.
Even so, every computer science program should have a class in comparative
programming languages so students get a strong whiff of Smalltalk, Ada, LISP,
C++, Eiffel, and various other languages.
Richard Riehle
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2002-12-21 3:30 Why is Ada NOT a good choice for a beginner to programming? David Wright
2002-12-21 5:44 ` sk
2002-12-23 14:29 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-23 17:36 ` sk
2002-12-23 18:24 ` David Wright
2002-12-23 19:16 ` sk
2002-12-23 19:48 ` David Wright
2002-12-23 21:33 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-23 21:17 ` Robert A Duff
2002-12-24 19:22 ` faust
2002-12-24 0:46 ` Robert A Duff
2002-12-24 9:41 ` Pascal Obry
2002-12-25 4:43 ` faust
2002-12-27 17:54 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-01-02 13:50 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-25 7:24 ` AG
2003-01-02 9:56 ` John McCabe
2003-01-02 13:47 ` Wes Groleau
2003-01-08 19:39 ` faust
2003-01-08 2:44 ` Jeffrey Creem
2003-01-08 18:54 ` Wes Groleau
2003-01-08 19:48 ` chris.danx
2003-01-08 21:59 ` Wes Groleau
2003-01-09 15:31 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-01-10 3:26 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-01-10 22:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-01-10 3:51 ` Kevin Cline
2003-01-10 13:29 ` Wes Groleau
2003-01-11 12:09 ` Richard Riehle
2003-01-11 18:13 ` Wes Groleau
2003-01-09 16:52 ` faust
2003-01-08 21:57 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-01-09 0:59 ` faust
2003-01-09 0:59 ` faust
2003-01-08 13:14 ` Ted Dennison
2003-01-08 17:41 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-01-09 16:40 ` faust
2003-01-08 21:58 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2002-12-23 21:30 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-23 22:11 ` David Wright
2002-12-30 16:22 ` Mark
2002-12-24 0:50 ` Craig Carey
2002-12-29 14:44 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2002-12-21 8:39 ` arvids lemchens
2002-12-21 8:53 ` Gautier
2002-12-21 9:42 ` Craig Carey
2002-12-21 10:44 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-12-21 15:47 ` Alfred Hilscher
2002-12-21 19:01 ` tmoran
2002-12-22 1:06 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-12-23 14:56 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-23 11:05 ` Alfred Hilscher
2002-12-22 0:34 ` James S. Rogers
2002-12-23 11:11 ` Alfred Hilscher
2002-12-23 14:32 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-23 19:54 ` tmoran
2002-12-21 10:51 ` Why is Ada a good choice for an ambitious beginner to programming Wojtek Narczynski
2002-12-22 14:40 ` Bill Findlay
2002-12-22 15:08 ` Bill Findlay
2002-12-22 23:02 ` David Wright
2002-12-23 1:36 ` Bill Findlay
2002-12-23 2:13 ` David Wright
2002-12-23 14:40 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-27 21:25 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-12-23 11:52 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2002-12-23 14:12 ` Bill Findlay
2002-12-23 20:15 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2002-12-24 19:29 ` Bill Findlay
2002-12-24 22:56 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2002-12-24 23:31 ` Bill Findlay
2002-12-24 23:36 ` Adrian Knoth
2002-12-25 8:23 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-12-27 17:27 ` Kevin Cline
2002-12-28 1:56 ` Bill Findlay
2002-12-28 2:13 ` Bill Findlay
2002-12-29 6:07 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-12-23 20:52 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2002-12-23 20:07 ` chris.danx
2003-01-02 10:04 ` John McCabe
2003-01-02 21:32 ` Bill Findlay
2003-01-04 22:55 ` David Wright
2003-01-05 0:50 ` Bill Findlay
2003-01-05 2:18 ` David Wright
2003-01-05 3:57 ` John R. Strohm
2003-01-10 2:51 ` Richard Riehle [this message]
2003-01-10 9:45 ` David Wright
2003-01-10 10:59 ` Richard Riehle
2003-01-11 17:47 ` u.r. faust
2003-01-06 9:43 ` John McCabe
2003-01-06 10:05 ` John McCabe
2003-01-06 11:13 ` Bill Findlay
2003-01-10 2:58 ` Richard Riehle
2003-01-10 9:29 ` John McCabe
2002-12-21 11:57 ` Why is Ada NOT a good choice for a beginner to programming? David Marceau
2002-12-21 15:59 ` Alfred Hilscher
2002-12-21 17:48 ` Britt Snodgrass
2002-12-21 20:05 ` Peter Hend�n
2002-12-22 1:54 ` faust
2002-12-22 1:28 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-12-22 2:11 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-12-22 22:49 ` faust
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2002-12-23 14:55 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-24 14:01 ` W D Tate
2002-12-24 20:06 ` Rod Haper
2002-12-25 0:37 ` noone
2002-12-26 13:23 ` W D Tate
2002-12-26 20:37 ` David Starner
2002-12-27 14:02 ` W D Tate
2003-01-13 12:18 ` John English
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