Judy Perry wrote: > ...we used to use Pascal as our intro to programming course > language because it was developed as a teaching language. > Now we use C++ -- why? Because we think it's a better teaching > tool of basic programming concepts? No. Because we've somehow > been convinced that in a 100-level, intro to programming course, > it is more important to teach the students a "real" programming > language rather than choose a language that is best > suited to teaching programming concepts _in general_.
Frightening. So the students learn to type in C++ but not understand what they're typing?
I'll bet the same administrators go to conferences with furrowed brows and much hand-wringing trying to determine the cause of America's intellectual decline, never understanding their own role in the process....
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