Re: Ada for 1st year students

[Jeffrey Creem <jeff@thecreems.com>]

amado.alves@gmail.com wrote:
> On 10 Out, 02:15, Jeffrey Creem <j...@thecreems.com> wrote:
>> http://www.amazon.com/PLUS-DATA-STRUCTURES-Nell-Dale/dp/0763737941
>>
>> It tends to be geared more toward a beginner student than some of the
>> other books that were suggested.
> 
> Thanks, but too off the mark, viz. too expensive (100US$) and too OO.

Expensive yes. Of course on the plus side, wait a week and perhaps the 
dollar will collapse so low that $100 won't mean anything ;)

Too OO is an interesting topic. There are some schools that are going 
with an objects first approach to introduction to programming 
(University of New Hampshire for example -- though with Java).

They are certainly not the first college to go with this approach but I 
think it is still too soon to tell how approaches like this will work out.