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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7684e927a2475d0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Teaching languages (was: can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other licenses related questions...) References: <449d2a28$0$11075$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <449d5c03$0$11074$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <6sbqsh6jv7.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:10:36 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.250.108.49 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1151356236 83.250.108.49 (Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:10:36 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:10:36 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5048 Date: 2006-06-26T21:10:36+00:00 List-Id: M E Leypold wrote: > Let me also add: Having tought software engineering courses at german > universities I wouldn't try to introduce Ada as a teaching language > there today: Whereas the language has all it should have, the skill > set acquired by the students would be only usable in very restricted > scenarios and this in a small market anyway. If they were software engineering courses I really hope you taught your students something more than a programming language. I was taught Scheme, Pascal and Java in university courses. At work I currently use C++, and a little Python, Perl and Bash. Yet I do use what I learned in those courses: structured programming, information hiding, algorithms, data structures and all that. Universities do teach programming languages, because you can't teach programming without a language, but the language isn't the skill set that the students are supposed to acquire. Pascal was designed specifically for teaching, and I doubt my teachers expected that I'd ever write commercial applications in Scheme. Give your students a good grasp of the paradigms and concepts of computer science, and introduce them to a few different languages (the more different the better), and they'll be able to apply their knowledge to new languages as needed. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu