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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,35815de6ea7a43e0,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,86fd56abf3579c34 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,77f71d0bde4c5bb4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: wjwinn@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Bill Winn) Subject: Re: Academic CS Losers? Date: 1995/04/21 Message-ID: <3n8dju$k1p@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 101368906 distribution: usa references: <3kaksj$iur@isnews.calpoly.edu> <3me1qs$n4a@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> <3mevmu$8an@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <3mh75i$8eu@rational.rational.com> <3mjihr$iqq@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <3mp20f$80t@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> <3n5410$pv1@crl.crl.com> organization: Analysts International Corporation mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.edu,comp.object Date: 1995-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3n5410$pv1@crl.crl.com>, pfanous@crl.com writes... >: My opinion that lower division programming language should be done in >: a done in a strongly typed imperitive object oriented language which >: is very disiplined. Examples: Ada9x, Modula3, Oberon2. More >I agree. This would make learning C++ much easier and would help the >novice programmer in adopting the object-oriented design paradigm early >so that they can develop good design habits. > If the teaching of the Object paradigm is important, I believe teaching Smalltalk does better job than any of the aforementioned languages. Smalltalk does not allow one to fall out of the Object paradigm; hybrid languages allow one to use the Structured or (in some cases) the Hacking paradigms. I do, however, advocate the teaching of a strongly-typed language (e.g. Ada95) to students before unleashing C++ upon them. Bill Winn Software Engineer - Analysts International Corporation ------------------------------- wjwinn@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com wwinn@klingon.iupucs.iupui.edu My views do not express the views of anyone except my alter-ego.