I see both of you willing to mandate the teaching of C and yet not
mandate the teaching of any of Ada, Pascal, PL/I etc.
This seems like the teaching of making do.
And is not making do an important skill?
More seriously, as long as Unix variants maintain their position of
importance
ljknews wrote:
What is wrong with this picture ?
I see both of you willing to mandate the teaching of C and yet not
mandate the teaching of any of Ada, Pascal, PL/I etc.
This seems like the teaching of making do.
You read more into my post than I wrote, as I did not mandate that the students
What is wrong with this picture ?
I see both of you willing to mandate the teaching of C and yet not
mandate the teaching of any of Ada, Pascal, PL/I etc.
This seems like the teaching of making do.
Hmmm, interesting point. In a particular set of learning objectives
required to complete a
Dana Epp wrote:
I think they should be taught the powers and failures of C.
Your course sounds enticing. I'm tempted to sign up for it.
Your course should also make a clear distinction between security,
safety, reliability and availability.
One can write secure code that is not safe and
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ljknews wrote:
What is
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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.
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I see both of you willing to mandate the
Les's C subset is good to consider. Also look into cyclone (cornell) and cquel.
gem
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Jose Nazario wrote:
rather than talking in a vacuum, make sure you've read the latest
ACM/IEEE-CS curriculum guidelines:
http://www.acm.org/education/curricula.html
http://sites.computer.org/ccse/
Hrm. I checked both pages, and searched for secur, and got nothing.
I didn't click
Fernando Schapachnik wrote:
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*
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