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Regrettably the template for LaTex still makes you use the horrible
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I fully agree on both:
1- Don't teach Java.
2- before learning _Java_, it pays to learn something about _programming_, and
that's definitely easier using Python than using Java.
This is based on my personal experience of teaching programming to First year
undergraduate students.
Regards,
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 19:47 +0100, Stasha Lauria wrote:
I fully agree on both:
1- Don't teach Java.
2- before learning _Java_, it pays to learn something about _programming_,
and that's definitely easier using Python than using Java.
This is based on my personal experience of
In this paper
(http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/italics/download.php?file=italics/vol10iss1/pdfs/paper10.pdf)
we have presented a quantitative evaluation. These initial results suggest
that the python approach leads to some improvements for learning introductory
programming concepts (such as
My two cents...
Use whatever route to Java proficiency the instructor happens to feel most
passionately about. If they really believe the argument that
INSERT_LANGUAGE_HERE first works well, then let them do it that way. If
they feel strongly that they can teach Java first, let them do it that
