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Subject: Re: pascal ass intro. language
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Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 10:21:55 EST
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In article <109@polyob.UUCP> hgoldber@polyob.UUCP (A1 harry goldberg ) writes:
>am interested to hear pros and conss about using pascal as the 
>language in which to teach introductory programming

Here at RIT they use Pascal in the introductory computer courses for
both comp sci/related stuff, and the introductory stuff for everyone else
("everyone at RIT has computer experience").  The courses are obviously
much different, but Pascal is probably a good choice because of it's
typing, which introduces a little disipline.

Also for some unknown reason most of the freshman comp sci's start
with something called karel the robot, which is a Pascal like waste
of time.

As far as Pascal goes, it is alright, but can anyone suggest anything
better?

jeff "in sunny downtown Rochester"(or something like that)

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