From: demer@cdfsun03 (David Emery)
Subject: Re: Choosing C++ instead of Ada
Date: 1996/10/30
Date: 1996-10-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DEMER.96Oct30090242@cdfsun03> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mheaney-ya023180002710961051200001@news.ni.net
Rush asks:
>But what about the decision awhile back by the Educational Testing Service
>to convert the Computer Science Advance Placement exam from Pascal to C++?
Good question! This arbitrary decision by ETS has sparked a lot of
controversy and protest. The ACM Technical Standards Committee, for
instance, has written several letters of protest, and, the last I
heard, had gotten ETS to postphone the implementation of this decision
for at least a year.
The reported experience (at the Computer Science Education
conferences) with teaching C++ in CS1 has been poor. The notion that
high schools need to start teaching C++ is truly bizarre. But, if the
"Java for CS1" trend grows as many expect, then an Advanced Placement
exam for C++ will end up being irrelevant for CS1. This means that
the efforts by ETS to develop a C++ based AP exam will be wasted,
which would serve them right! :-)
dave
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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
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 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Andrew Dunstan
1996-10-25 0:00 ` John DiCamillo
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 ` Thomas Kendelbacher
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-28 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Rush Kester
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1996-10-30 0:00 ` David Emery [this message]
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
[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
1996-10-25 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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