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From: reggie@dinsdale.nm.paradyne.com (George W. Leach)
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Subject: Re: CS-1
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Date: 9 May 89 13:55:53 GMT
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In article <1989May4.225626.657@ziebmef.uucp> stephen@ziebmef.UUCP (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:

>   We at McMaster University used Oh! Pascal, 2nd ed., for our second-
>year course (a second course, the first being in FORTRAN).  I found the
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>book to be fairly useful, although it is aimed more at a first course,
>which is what the original poster had in mind.


     This is exactly the same sequence of courses that I took as an
undergrad back in the mid 70's.  Is this still the order in which
most CS programs teach introductory level programming?  I would have
thought by now that FORTRAN would not be the first language taught.
I attended an engineering school where everyone learned FORTRAN as
a first programming course.  Pascal was introduced in the Intro to
CS course.

George

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