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In article <1990Nov1.183157.6740@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, render@cs.uiuc.edu (Hal Render) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I'm putting together a survey to find out what programming languages are now
>taught in introductory Computer Science classes at the undergraduate level.
>If you teach an intro programming or data structures course or if you have 
>taken such a course in the last three years, I'd greatly appreciate it if you 
>could take a few moments to answer the following questions and *e-mail* your 
>responses to me at one of the addresses given below.  I will post a summary 
>to the net.  Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>hal render
>render@cs.uiuc.edu
>render@zeppo.colorado.edu
>
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>
>Survey Questions:
>
>   1) Are you a student, a professional programmer, or an instructor? 
>
      Associate Professor. Computer Science Department. University of New 
      Orleans.  

 2) What programming language do (did) you use in your introductory
>      programming and data structures courses?

      
    Ada for computer science majors since fall/1984
    Pascal for Liberal Arts majors
    FORTRAN for Engineering majors



>   3) Do you feel that the language is a good one for this purpose?

       Ada is very good for teaching purposes. It was hard to get started
       teaching it. But now, we have enough support material that eases
       the teaching task.
>   4) What other language (if any) would you prefer?
       Probably a functional programming language such as Miranda.
       Functional languages have a rather trim syntax and semantics and
       are very powerful and excellent examples to teach principles of 
       programming.






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