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Subject: Re: How to teach computers
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Date: Fri, 30-Jan-87 14:29:05 EST
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In article <1212@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU> dam@uvacs.UUCP (Dave Montuori) writes:
>Here's a semi-facetious comment on How To Avoid Instilling 1st-Language
>Preference In Our Students....
>
>Make their first programming course use FORTRAN on punch cards.

On an IBM 360, as well.  This will also prevent "Instilling 1st-Computer
Preference In Our Students".

I knew there must have been a reason all intro CS classes (including the
business oriented one) at school taught programming this way.  Those
professors were smarter than I thought.

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Dan Tilque
dant@tekla.tek.com

I taught my computer how to roll over and play dead.  Now that's all it does.