From: rkester@csc.com (Rush Kester)
Subject: Re: Choosing C++ instead of Ada
Date: 1996/10/28
Date: 1996-10-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <552tcg$opv@explorer.csc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c4ohhnm298.fsf@hc17031.hcsd.ca
David Emery (demer@hc17031.hcsd.ca) wrote:
: Popularity is hardly a good criterion for teaching -anything-. The CS1
: language (or its equivalent) should be chosen for its educational advantage,
: and not because some kid somewhere read that it was helpful for getting
: a job this week. Besides, it looks like Java is replacing C++ in the
: "popularity charts"; students who spend a lot of time learning C++ without
: learning the underlying programming are likely to be unpleasantly surprised
: when there are no C++ jobs available when they graduate in 4 years...
: Incidentally, my friends in academia say that there's a big rush towards
: Java for teaching, as being both "politically correct" and substantially
: better than C++ for teaching. I'd much rather have a Java-trained programmer
: than a C++ programmer; it's my observation that the primary skill you learn
: as a C++ programmer is working with a debugger :-)
: dave
But what about the decision awhile back by the Educational Testing Service
to convert the Computer Science Advance Placement exam from Pascal to C++?
Do you mean that those High Schools that are revamping their classes
toward the new AP in C++ are going to "reach a dead-end," or find another
"turn in the road?"
Rush Kester
Sr. Software Engineer
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-09 0:00 What is Ada used for??? Sean Roehnelt
[not found] ` <AE817A13-1E0BE@206.107.67.30>
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Jin Xue Kuang
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Aron Felix Gurski
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Jason Smith
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada (was What is Ada used for?) Richard Riehle
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-22 0:00 ` whiting_ms@corning.com (Matt Whiting)
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada Stanley R. Allen
1996-10-24 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Andrew Dunstan
1996-10-25 0:00 ` John DiCamillo
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Poutanen Olavi
1996-10-25 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-10-26 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-10-28 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Rush Kester [this message]
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Thomas Kendelbacher
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-30 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Poutanen Olavi
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada (was What is Ada used for?) Kazimir Majorinc
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-10-10 0:00 ` What is Ada used for??? Robert S. White
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada (was What is Ada used for?) Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-26 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Arlene S. Felton
1996-11-04 0:00 ` nasser
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