On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Shane Hathaway wrote:
Interesting point. Computer science courses could cover more ground that
way. It appears that the general belief among computer science instructors
is that they should use the most popular languages, like Java and C++, to
incidentally teach practice while they're teaching theory.
Huh, I always thought that they used Java and C++ simply because it was
what most of the professors knew. I never had a class that used either of
those languages that taught *anything* at all about the language in
question (with the exception of CS 142 which did teach Java).
Although I guess that begs (oops, raises) the question: why does it matter
what programming language most of the professors know?
~ Ross
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