Guzdial, Mark wrote:
The teachers using these approaches complain that our traditional introductory courses don't prepare students for science learning. They care more about representation (e.g., how you represent a vector is critical for the kinds of algorithms that you write in physics), floating point limitations, and iterative methods, and less about type safety and object orientation. These teachers also complain that they
Maybe they should be taught domain-specific programming languages, rather than general-purpose programming languages. In this particular case it sounds like they might be interested in Fortress: http://research.sun.com/projects/plrg/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
