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-Thread: 103376,f40056d015b2ae33 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!198.186.194.247.MISMATCH!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!postnews3.readnews.com!not-for-mail Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:39:20 -0500 From: "Peter C. Chapin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Suggestions for topics in an Ada course? References: <4737291e$0$27064$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <47383b63$0$27066$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> Organization: SoVerNet (sover.net) NNTP-Posting-Host: 31ac1297.news.sover.net X-Trace: DXC=WW\^gTdPOB7[oSJ=8Q]]P1K6_LM2JZB_308B@Gc]3b4:3?@`i3kGa5;]JlbSbfXT54`[f9_Qn5R^< X-Complaints-To: abuse@sover.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18304 Date: 2007-11-12T06:39:20-05:00 List-Id: wilson wrote: > That first language, as someone commented earlier, sets up all kinds of > pathways (ruts?) in the brain that are very hard to modify. > > This is not to discourage you from trying. God knows we need more > people like you. It is just a note about possible difficulties along > the way. Thanks for the warning. I know people are influenced, for better or worse, by what they already know. How could it be otherwise? Part of my job as an educator is to figure out how to teach people new things despite their previous bias. One can't work in this field without believing that it is possible. Steve's suggestion of looking at tasking is good. That is a nice feature of Ada and also, as he said, a topic of current interest with a certain glamor. I'll have to think about that some more. Peter