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From: gcm@mtgzz.UUCP (g.c.mccoury)
Newsgroups: soc.college,comp.edu
Subject: Re: First Language Taught in CSC degree track
Message-ID: <2868@mtgzz.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 15:49:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: mtgzz.2868
Posted: Thu Jul 16 15:49:39 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 08:50:59 EDT
References: <1472@super.upenn.edu.upenn.edu>
Organization: AT&T, Middletown NJ
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Keywords: language, CSC 101, intro
Summary: 1st CS class at PSU
Xref: mnetor soc.college:762 comp.edu:496

In article <1472@super.upenn.edu.upenn.edu>, shaffer@operations.dccs.upenn.edu (Earl Shaffer) writes:
> Which language should be taught first in the Computer Science
> track for incoming freshman?
> 
> Remember, this is the course that will teach all the bad habits we
> learned from our first language(s)! (happy face)  For example, I
> still use "I" for counters because I learned Fortran first. (yech!)

	Anybody know if they are still teaching Fortran as the intro CS class
at Penn State these days? Just wonderin because it was such a *fun* class for
me at the time ;-) Right after this class came IBM 360/370 assembler - this
class really thinned out the crowd :-}

	From your local PSU graduate.....

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