Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mimsy!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!homxb!mtuxo!mtgzz!gcm 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 Lines: 25 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..... /*************************************************************************** * * * e N Grover McCoury * * B o ATT Laboratories(?) [was ISL] * * y r m a l ?? ...!ihnp4!mtgzz!gcm * * h * * W I refuse to have a battle of wits * * with an unarmed person... * * * ****************************************************************************/