6/19/2010 11:51 AM, Steve Bricker wrote:
Back in ancient days, my college training began with FORTRAN the first semester, then COBOL, ALC (BAL), and RPG in the second semester.
Back in even more ancient days, my college training began with IBM 650 machine language, then ALC (SOAP), then CLASSMATE all of which which we fed into the computer via a card reader
That was all a subset of a logic class. That was all the school offered computer-wise then.
//I also reacted to introducing programming via pseudo-code. Might just as well ue Python (since it is like pseudo code) and at least see some results.
It also reminds me of a FORTRAN course I was asked to teach. The students spent the first morning learning how to write expressions (e.g. operators and precedence). They had no contetxt for why they would do that or what a FORTRAN program looked like. As soon at I could I rewrote the entire course, starting them with a program that read 2 numbers, added them and printed the result. In those days students sat at terminals, edited program files, submitted them to the resident HP 3000 computer and shortly received printouts.
-- Bob Gailer 919-636-4239 Chapel Hill NC
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