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- Path: news.cac.psu.edu!psuvm!rhm1
- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 14:10:59 EST
- From: Rick Mercer <RHM1@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <96026.141059RHM1@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Language in the first CS course
-
- Dick Reid at Michigan State University maintains a list of
- Universities and the programming language each uses in the first
- Computer Science course. Whereas almost every school using Ada and
- Scheme shows up in the list, many schools using C++ do not. To make
- the list more accurately reflect the changing potpurri of languages
- used in the first CS course, I urge you to add and/or update
- the language used at your university. Send a short message to
-
- reid@cps.msu.edu
-
- But first, please read Dick Reid's instructions below!
-
- (And below that is a list of reported languages with numbers and
- percentages calculated by C Richard Crosby at the College of Charleston.
-
- Additionally, Rich Pattis is starting a list specific to C++. If your
- school is using C++ in the first course, tell Rich: pattis.acm.org
-
- Best wishes,
-
- Rick Mercer - Penn State Berks
-
- ------------------Dick Reid's Instructions----------------------
-
- >Please send me via e-mail any CORRECTIONS or ADDITIONS
- >if you have FIRST-HAND, CURRENT knowledge--you're
- >THERE NOW, and your e-mail address SHOWS it.
-
- >It is no longer feasible to accept, or pursue the correctness
- >of, rumors and hearsay about languages currently in use at
- >sites other than your own, sorry.
-
- >Please help me get your entry right by answering:
-
- >What language(s) is(are) used in the FIRST course the MAJORITY
- >of your Computer Science majors take as their FIRST CS course
- >at your University?
-
- >Thanks,
-
- >Dick
- >reid@cps.msu.edu
-
- ---------------Summary of Dick's List by Dr. Crosby-----------------
-
- FIRST-COURSE LANGUAGE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE MAJORS
-
- Pascal 157 35.5%
- Ada 73 16.5%
- Scheme 50 11.3%
- C 39 8.8%
- Modula 35 7.9%
- C++ 34 7.7%
- Modula-2 13 2.9%
- Fortran 8 1.8%
- Turing 6 1.35%
- SML 6 1.35%
- Miranda 4 0.9%
- Eiffel 3 0.7%
- ISETL 2 0.45%
- Modula-3 2 0.45%
- Oberon 2 0.45%
- Beta 1 0.2%
- Haskel 1 0.2%
- ML 1 0.2%
- ObjPascal 1 0.2%
- Orwell 1 0.2%
- Prolog 1 0.2%
- Simula 1 0.2%
- Smalltalk 1 0.2%
-
- Total 442
-