On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 10:42 , Jeffry Houser wrote: > When I took CS101, I created a Stack ADT in Pascal. I specifically > implemented each procedure (Push, Pop, StackNew, IsStackEmpty, etc.. ) and > learned different approaches to take to make it all work.
Ah, happy days! > Moving into Java, the students no longer have to create a Stack ADT, > they > merely have to create an instance of the stack class and all the methods > are already there. Sounds like a wasted opportunity to me. Perhaps the professors are just being lazy. I learned assembler programming at university (in addition to Pascal) and we had to be able to write a simple sort algorithm in assembler. Taught you a lot about programming... "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
