From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: is Ada still being used for teaching at universities?
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:18:00 +0100
Date: 2011-03-14T12:18:00+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d7df968$0$7661$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f464c594-f1b7-4b6b-adff-195b801000ea@17g2000prr.googlegroups.com>
On 13.03.11 14:22, John McCormick wrote:
> I have just returned from the ACM SIGCSE (Special Interest Group for
> Computer Science Education) where SIGAda has a booth in the exhibit
> hall. Amazing how many people stop by to say how they would love to
> teach Ada to beginners but that the students would revolt if they did
> not teach one of the popular three languages. I think we are the only
> discipline in which the content of Freahman courses is determined by
> the "want ads".
All the more spin doctoring seems needed. I would hope that Brinch
Hansen effects can be avoided by being constructive.
Isn't there a way to frame ``operational programming'' such that it is
appealing to at least some mathnic and engineering groups? (Showing
how to actually program and reason in real TIME and real SPACE.)
One idea is to remove the language name dressing from the ads
and reduce them to their popular content. Such as (preparatory
work for) O-O Programming, functional style, the Map-Reduce Model
in concurrent programming languages, efficient banking (perhaps
Duncan Sands can explain?) etc.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-12 1:33 is Ada still being used for teaching at universities? Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-03-12 12:01 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-13 13:22 ` John McCormick
2011-03-13 13:40 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-03-14 13:23 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-03-15 16:00 ` Lucretia
2011-03-15 17:21 ` Pascal Obry
2011-03-15 19:16 ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-15 19:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-27 23:17 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-28 8:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-28 10:25 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-28 12:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-28 17:53 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-27 23:12 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-28 21:56 ` richard
2011-03-29 7:30 ` stefan-lucks
2011-03-14 11:18 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2011-03-27 23:20 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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