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=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PLING_QUERY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,d24e07f660698f1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,d24e07f660698f1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d24e07f660698f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d24e07f660698f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tvalesky@adams.patriot.net (Tom Valesky) Subject: Re: C/C++ is the best teaching language??!? Date: 1997/08/08 Message-ID: <5sfgu3$t2c$1@washington.patriot.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 262885726 References: <33C61545.167EB0E7@tower.com> <33E1B18E.66B4DEC2@docs.uu.se> <33e4d7ec.1596193@news.deltanet.com> <5s8bsh$mo0@alumni.rpi.edu> Followup-To: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada Organization: PatriotNet, (703) 277-7737 Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-08-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Actually, I'm sort of hoping that Java will catch on as a teaching language. It's a lot more forgiving for first-time programmers than either C or C++ (in particular, most people starting out in C seem to get hung up on pointers and pointer arithmetic, which doesn't exist in Java), it includes support for advanced features such as multi-threading, distributed objects, and networking in the standard distribution, and it's available on lots and lots of different platforms for free. Students in a CS curriculum need to learn about pointers at some point, but most CS curriculums (curricula? :-) ) have an architecture and/or assembler course somewhere in the core courses that could address this. Doug Lea has a more in-depth discussion of this idea at: http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/html/javaInCS.html -- =========================================================================== Tom Valesky -- tvalesky@patriot.net http://www.patriot.net/users/tvalesky