Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!GWUVM.BITNET!MFELDMAN From: MFELDMAN@GWUVM.BITNET (Mike Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Intro Modual-2 Text recommendations wanted Message-ID: Date: Sun, 15-Nov-87 17:39:00 EST Article-I.D.: UCF1VM.INFO-M2%87111518013620 Posted: Sun Nov 15 17:39:00 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 16-Nov-87 06:48:49 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Info-Modula2 Distribution List Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 16 I have no big problems with the one from Modula Corp in Provo, Utah. I haven't tried teaching freshmen from it. I guess the biggest problem is that it has no integrated editor. But ModCorp will allow you to copy and redistribute the compiler to students for a very low fee (call them for details). The tutorial in the front of their documentation is a reasonable discussion of Modula-2 amd libraries. Configuring the compiler for a 2-floppy system is not a job for a novice. What I have done is prepare a reasonable 2-floppy package which I allow students to copy. In both the Modula-2 and Ada worlds the compiler builders have implicitly declared that their languages ain't for babies, by building such poor student-oriented packages. Those of us who want to teach real languages from CS1 forward have an up-hill battle to fight.