From: weberwu@compute.tfh-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff)
Subject: Three cheers for free CD-ROMS!
Date: 1997/10/29
Date: 1997-10-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <637e34$5u6@sun04.tfh-berlin.de> (raw)
Now that's the way to promote a language! We are teaching Ada in
all three computer-related degree programs as the first language.
This semester we have more than 160 students beginning their
studies.
A colleague discovered that the company CCI in Meppen, Germany would
send free copies of the Ada Tour 2.0 i (including the Lovelace
tutorial, a collection of compilers and a pile of documentation)
to anyone who asked. So we asked, and we promptly found big boxes
of CDs waiting for us in the departmental offices.
It was like Christmas, passing the CDs out in class! All those
faces lit up - they were getting something for nothing! And the
griping about us teaching a language not used in the Real World (tm)
disappeared. This is exactly what needs to be done (and done fast)
to attract young engineers to the language: give them a free taste
of how good it is. Thanks to CCI for preparing this great CD!
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Prof. Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff Technische Fachhochschule Berlin
FB Informatik, Luxemburger Str. 10,
13353 Berlin, Germany
weberwu@tfh-berlin.de http://www.tfh-berlin.de/~weberwu/
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-29 0:00 Debora Weber-Wulff [this message]
1997-10-29 0:00 ` Three cheers for free CD-ROMS! Mark A Biggar
1997-10-30 0:00 ` John English
1997-10-30 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-11-01 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-11-02 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1997-11-17 0:00 ` Lynch
1997-11-17 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
1997-11-18 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1997-11-18 0:00 ` John English
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