En un mensaje anterior, ljknews escribió: > At 1:56 PM -0700 7/7/04, Dana Epp wrote: > > >I don't pick C for C's sake. I choose C because ON AVERAGE, most students will be > >exposed to C more than the languages you suggest. Especially in the majority on > >industries hiring students out of university. > > Primarily because that is what universities use for training. > > Originally because Unix was so cheap for educational institutions. > > I smell a vicious circle.
I smell a discusion going nowhere. What is the point of teaching a languague? Teach them to program in a paradigm (better, in all of them, and give them the tools to make educated choices about which is better for each context), and choose any language as an *example* of the paradigm. Latter on, they can pick the particularities of any language by a book. Remember: don't give them fishes, teach them how to fish. Having said that, giving a quick overview of C seems like a good idea when teaching about security, because you can easily show examples of all types of problems (I think is important, however, to make it clear that their represent a class of problems, and can happen in many languages, not only in C). Regards, Fernando.
