I've also been working high school students a bit and functional programming is a great way to teach the principals of computation. The best results come when FP is applied to domains that get kids excited. I've had very good luck with Haskore as an excellent way to bring computation to a general audience. I'm also working on a student friendly version of Pan that should be releasable in a few more weeks.
The downside of Haskell is that none of the regular implementations (ghc, hugs) are really right for this level of student. Type inference is an especially nasty problem. There also a number of gotcha's lurking in the language that cause problems. But even so with a little supervision everything works quite well. I think fundamentals of computing as found in Haskell are good for a general mathematics class as opposed to a "computer" class where you have to deal with curriculum defined by the AP test or intertwined with some specific software environment. John _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
