On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 05:28:33PM -0400, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote: > There was something similar 1-2 years ago in Great Britain, where education > commission recognized pascal languages (Delphi) as the best for education. > > So the next generation of good developers will come from South Africa. > The Department of Education will purchase Delphi and students (and > graduates) will be able to use FOSS solution like FPC/Lazarus. > > Another proof, that pascal is the language that makes sense.
One could argue about language, but Delphi as RAD-IDE is definitely not a good choice. Students tend to overfocus on embellishing forms etc, and not spending their time on the more problem-solving oriented assignment. Probably because dolling up the UI is easier and gives instant-gratification. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
