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- From: isae@iastate.edu (Gadjah Mada)
- Subject: Re: Pascal as road to C (was Re: Newbie Wants Advice on C-Programming)
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 02:42:29 GMT
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- In <MITCH.92Dec28105734@pollux.clsi> mitch@clsi.COM (Mitchell N. Perilstein) writes:
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- >Pascal is awful as a first language. In my experience teaching it to
- >freshmen pure and applied science students, they spend a huge precentage
- >of their time worrying about, memorizing, and getting pinched by TA's
- >for SYNTAX. They're supposed to be getting concepts like stepwise
- >refinement, algorithms, variables, etc...
-
- I am no expert programmer, but at least I know Pascal and C.
- I learnt Pascal prior to C due to my (old) curriculum here at ISU.
- But I really wish I had the new curriculum now.
-
- >I feel MIT is doing the right thing by teaching freshmen a functional
- >language with very little syntax: scheme. Here is all the syntax you
- >need to get started. Everything is either
-
- So is ISU, I guess, since the new curriculum too has scheme as the first
- language to teach the freshmen. I feel like starting over as a freshman. :)
-
- My point is I agree with Mitchell although I am not an expert in any
- language YET. :-) I am just learning as many languages as I can, but I
- have 3 words for you.. I LOVE C.
-
-
- >---
- > Mitchell N. Perilstein CAD Language Systems, Inc. 410-992-5700 x225
- > Member, League for Programming Freedom. Mail lpf@uunet.uu.net for info.
-
- -Rony
- isae@IASTATE.EDU
-