Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ames!ptsfa!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!pur-ee!j.cc.purdue.edu!i.cc.purdue.edu!aaz From: aaz@i.cc.purdue.edu (Pete-Bob) Newsgroups: soc.college,comp.edu Subject: Re: First Language Taught in CSC degree track Message-ID: <2158@i.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 10:51:46 EDT Article-I.D.: i.2158 Posted: Mon Jul 27 10:51:46 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 29-Jul-87 06:30:23 EDT References: <1472@super.upenn.edu.upenn.edu> <145@wright.EDU> <558@l.cc.purdue.edu> Reply-To: aaz@i.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Pete-Bob) Organization: Purdue University Lines: 29 Xref: mnetor soc.college:787 comp.edu:529 In article <558@l.cc.purdue.edu> roz@l.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Vu Qui Hao-Nhien) writes: >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: >>> Which language should be taught first in the Computer Science >>> track for incoming freshman? >> English. >Right. > >Anyhow, to get back to the real meaning of the original article, at >Purdue, the intro course for CS majors (CS 230) teaches Pascal and C. >They have always been teaching Pascal, and they don't want students of >about the same class going on totally different tracks. > >"I tawt I taw a tootty tat" >Hao-Nhien Q. Vu (pur-ee!l.cc.purdue.edu!vu) > (vu@l.cc.purdue.edu) > [That's "ell", not "one"] When did Purdue start teaching C in their intro CS course (cs230)? Last I had heard, it consisted entirely of Pascal. Many of the courses at Purdue, even in the upper-division, require that students use Pascal. (For ease in compiling and grading) In fact, until recently, none of the C.S. courses taught C to undergraduates. They had to learn it on their own or take it from the EE department. (As I did.) Pete Apple aaz@i.cc.purdue.edu