From: dkumar@blackcat (Deepak Kumar)
Subject: Re: First Language Debate etc.
Date: 1995/04/21
Date: 1995-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dkumar.798468494@blackcat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.798392254@gnat
In article <dewar.798392254@gnat>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>
>Of course you are quite right about environments, and that is something
>we really hope to see improved later this year with GNAT. By the way do
>I take it you are using Unix for CS2, that seems rather inconsistent
>with worrying about nice environments :-)
>
Yes, it is and it isn't. CS1, where I teach it, also serves the larger
community (90% CS non-majors). However, by the time they get to CS2, they
are all prospective CS majors, have already had enough training in UNIX, by
way of getting into e-mail/IRC/MUD/MOO that UNIX is not a problem. They are
in fact at a stage where they want more challenges than a Pascal on the MAC
can offer. In other words they are motivated enough to move to a less
friendly environment. Of course, the first time I will teach it like this
is next fall...so we still have to wait and see.
Deepak.
--
Deepak Kumar
Department of Mathematics & Computer Science
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
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1995-04-19 0:00 ` No top schools use Ada Fernando Mato Mira
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Kenneth Almquist
1995-04-18 0:00 ` cjames
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Kenneth Almquist
[not found] ` <NEWTNews.27781.798049024.ir001168@cec-services-01>
[not found] ` <3mrg2c$onn@disunms.epfl.ch>
[not found] ` <tomkwongD76x5L.AED@netcom.com>
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Which first-course languages? (was: What schools use Eiffel (was: No top schools use Ada)) ? Theodore Dennison
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Scott Wheeler
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Jeremiah S Patterson
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Scott Wheeler
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Johnson
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Which first-course languages? (was: What schools use Eiffel (was Geert Bosch
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Which first-course languages? (was: What schools use Eiffel (was: No top schools use Ada)) ? Des Kenny
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` What schools use Eiffel ? Igor Chudov
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Which first-course languages? (was: What schools use Eiffel (was: No top schools use Ada)) ? Spencer Allain
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Scott Wheeler
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Neil Wilson
1995-04-21 0:00 ` What schools use Eiffel ? Madison Cloutier
[not found] ` <D759Az.GHM@cs.fredonia.edu>
1995-04-19 0:00 ` No top schools use Ada Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Ian S Nelson
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Brian Hanson
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` First Language Debate etc Deepak Kumar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Deepak Kumar [this message]
1995-04-19 0:00 ` No top schools use Ada Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <NEWTNews.19974.798127420.cjames@cec-services-01>
1995-04-18 0:00 ` Jay M Martin
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Vladimir Vukicevic
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-04-20 0:00 ` cjames
1995-04-22 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
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