At 9:40 AM -0400 7/7/04, James Walden wrote: >Dana Epp wrote: >> Of course, I also think students should have to take at least one course in ASM to >> really understand how computer instructions work, so they can gain a foundation of >> learning for the heart of computer processing. And >> I think they should be taught the powers and failures of C. Since I know many of >> you think I'm nuts for that, you might want to look at this outline with the same >> amount of consideration. > >I agree with you on both of those requirements. You need to have a basic >understanding of assembly and how C is translated into assembly to understand the >most common types of buffer overflow attacks. There are better languages for secure >programming than C, but students are almost certainly going to have to read or write >C at some point in their careers, so they need to understand it.
What is wrong with this picture ? I see both of you willing to mandate the teaching of C and yet not mandate the teaching of any of Ada, Pascal, PL/I etc. This seems like the teaching of "making do". -- Larry Kilgallen
