Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!CS.BUFFALO.EDU!kumard From: kumard@CS.BUFFALO.EDU (Deepak Kumar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Texts for Modula-2 Courses Message-ID: <8712072237.AA11380@gort.cs.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 17:37:20 EST Article-I.D.: gort.8712072237.AA11380 Posted: Mon Dec 7 17:37:20 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 04:52:46 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Info-Modula2 Distribution ListOrganization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 19 We also went through this decision making process about textbooks for our intro courses at SUNY Buffalo. We used Sincovec and Weiner's Data Structures book for CS2. However, since then (SP86) we have switched to David Riley's books : Intro To CS using Modula2 and Data Structures using Modula2. These books have been in use for two semesters now and students seem to like them a lot. (It does have a multi colored priniting which is characteristic of some Info. Science type texts, that is because the publisher Boyd and Fraser specialized in such texts, and this is their first venture into this area). The books stick very closely to the prescribed curriculum and I like th eorganization of chapters and presentation of the material a whole lot better. The books come packaged with a free implementation of Modula2 for the PC. The publisher is very responsive. You should look into these texts before making a decision. Deepak.