>>>>> "Hal" == Hal Daume, <Hal> writes: Hal> Hi all,
Hal> Before getting in to this, let me preface my question(s) with a note that Hal> I have checked through the Haskell in Education web page and have found Hal> various links off there of interest (and I've googled, etc. In Hal> short: I've done my homework). Hal> That said, I've been in rather close correspondence with my math/computer Hal> science teacher from high school. When I first took CS there, they taught Hal> Pascal (a year early they had been teaching Scheme). They switched over Hal> to VB (alas) recently and have been teaching that for a few years now. Hal> The teacher really wants to get away from VB, but is having a somewhat Hal> difficult time deciding what to go to. The two most promising options are Hal> Haskell and Java. I really recommend looking at the TeachScheme! curriculum and the How to Design Programs curriculum. Here are two URLs: http://www.teach-scheme.org/ http://www.htdp.org/ This works exceptionally well at the High School level (I know that earlier attempts to do this with Scheme failed---this one is very different), and has been extensively applied with great success---also and especially in conjunction with the AP curriculum and/or a course on Java based on the same methodology. There's a wealth of software and material, and the TeachScheme! program offers (mostly free) workshops on this. Haskell just has some terrible properties when it comes to teaching beginners. Among them are the complex and easy-to-get-wrong syntax, the available programming environments which are OK for developers but awful for beginners. There's also a dearth of good textbooks at the level you need. Haskell is very easy to learn (and an excellent choice for a 2nd or 3rd language) when you know Scheme. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
