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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,33e793a459e66944 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: demer@cdfsun03 (David Emery) Subject: Re: Choosing C++ instead of Ada Date: 1996/10/30 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 193240062 references: organization: Hughes Aircraft Company newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- <.sig is away on vacation>