On 09-04-06 at 11.10, Bennett Kankuzi <bfkank...@gmail.com> wrote:
Searching through the web I note that the issue on the choice of an introductory programming language to students is quite debatable. What is your take PPIGers on this issue? What can you recommend for my situation?
Personally I would consider what the purpose of the course is, what do you expect the kids to learn. My opinion is that it's the problem solving part that's important and that's what they should learn ... the programming language is just a specific notation for their solution.
So assuming that it's problem solving part that is of importance then you only have to give them an easy way of writing down their solution ... which pretty much rule out all three of these languages :-D
Frankly I have difficulties in deciding which is "the least bad choice". jem -- Jan Erik Moström, http://mostrom.eu