On Mon, February 7, 2005 10:23 am, Carl Cerecke said: > Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: >> If the school is well organised they can do Polytech or Uni papers in >> Year >> 13. (One of my sons did several at the Christchurch College of Computing >> - >> http://www.ccc.school.nz/ ) > > Yep. My youngest brother has just started there. I talked to him last > night - they are learning Pascal, which I think is a bit 80's really. > > I think python would be better: higher level, is actually used, has OO, > is easier to learn. > > Cheers, > Carl. > > IMHO, if you're going to learn a 3GL, then any one ( as long as it's structured ) is fine... maybe even Fortran ( which is what I learnt on 30 years ago! ). The most important thing is that the teacher is totally familiar with it, and able to teach both the syntax and good programming practices.
Cheers, Steve. -- Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
