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From: aaz@i.cc.purdue.edu (Pete-Bob)
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Subject: Re: First Language Taught in CSC degree track
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Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 10:51:46 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 27 10:51:46 1987
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 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