Hi,
Possibly these are of interest:
1) de Castro, Christopher H., Assessing the Impact of Computer Programming in
Understanding Limits and Derivatives in a Secondary Mathematics Classroom
(2011). Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Dissertations.
Paper 79.
I appreciate that comparison and I agree in general. But it would also depends
on the informatics program goals. That is, if it is more computing science,
more engineering, more IS, and so on.
Possibly, it is because of such a lack of agreement about an alternative first
language that Java is