To all Mozart users, I would like to announce the availability of a full set of course material and related software (written in Mozart) for a first-year programming course (note that all materials are in French). The course is based on the idea of a progression of microworlds: start with a simple microworld, and as soon as its limits are reached, add a concept to get a richer microworld. This way we can get pretty far into concurrency and multi-agent programming in a first-year course. There is software support for an environment (called LogOz) to make this easy to use for students. The main disadvantage is that people who take this course first might be disappointed to take more "traditional" second-year and later courses.
URL: http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/micromondes.html Maybe some bilingual educator would be interested in using this as inspiration to do something similar in English? Peter Van Roy _________________________________________________________________________________ mozart-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.mozart-oz.org/mailman/listinfo/mozart-users
