Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!bu-cs!bucsb.bu.edu!dnk From: dnk@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Danny Kumamoto) Newsgroups: soc.college,comp.edu Subject: Re: First Language Taught in CSC degree track Message-ID: <1052@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-Jul-87 20:29:45 EDT Article-I.D.: bucsb.1052 Posted: Sat Jul 18 20:29:45 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jul-87 06:43:29 EDT References: <1472@super.upenn.edu.upenn.edu> <145@wright.EDU> Reply-To: dnk@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Danny Kumamoto) Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci. Lines: 31 Xref: mnetor soc.college:767 comp.edu:504 In article <145@wright.EDU> jholbach@wright.EDU (Jim Holbach) writes: >in article <1472@super.upenn.edu.upenn.edu>, shaffer@operations.dccs.upenn.edu (Earl Shaffer) says: >> Xref: wright soc.college:94 comp.edu:381 >> >> I have a questions which should stir up a debate. >> >> Which language should be taught first in the Computer Science >> track for incoming freshman? >> > > English. > > > >J. Holbach > Right on! English, English and more English, and throw in some extra grammar and writing classes (e.g., technical writing). -- Danny ARPANET: dnk@bucsb.bu.edu BITNET: cscjfsn@BOSTONU CSNET: dnk%bucsb@bu-cs UUCP: ..!harvard!bu-cs!bucsb!dnk Phone: (617) 547-5033 Voice: "Hey Danny" will do USnail: 14 Laurel St., Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A. "Joy is in the ears that hear." -- Saltheart Foamfollower