Well one overlooked advantage to teaching a hard language out of the
gate is to weed out the wannabe's. A lot of kids would love to be
programmers, until they see how much work and time it takes to get
very good at it. Only those gifted ought to go on to be the
programmers of the future, and as I don't trust the unknown teachers
and administrators of any school system to make that judgement for the
students, teaching them a root language lie Pascal is a great
deterrent to "lazy programmers" (the existence in numbers of which I
deduce to be prevalent by seeing the kind of software that comes out
of some places these days.)
Bob Sneidar
IT Manager
Logos Management
Calvary Chapel CM
On Jun 25, 2009, at 6:29 PM, Sadhunathan Nadesan wrote:
Here in Plovdiv they teach High School kids PASCAL, which is,
unless you
are some sort of retro-geek, a major turn-off. I shall, very shortly,
become a "pusher" for RR, and be trotting round the school giving
demos
of just what can be done.
Alternate point of view:
I love Pascal. Just like those high school kids, it was the first
language I was taught. It enforces excellent habits such as strong
typing
which then carry over into other languages. Great teaching language,
and if you study the work of Nickolas Wirth, such as "Algorithms +
Data Structures = Programs"
<snip>
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