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- From: davidt@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Taylor)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Recommendations for compiler for HS students
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 21:48:32 GMT
- Organization: University of Calgary CPSC
- Message-ID: <4kjung$u2h@linux.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
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- In article <4kesc2$i6g@head.globalcom.net>,
- Bryan Keiffer <bkeiffer@shentel.net> wrote:
- >I am looking for recommendations for a compiler to be used to teach
- >c++ to high school students. The machines they will be using will
- >most likely be Pentium machines with 16 Meg of RAM. Objects, classes,
- >etc. are not really an issue. At this level students just need to
- >learn the syntax and basic programming concepts.
- >Since I will be taking a c++ course this summer, it follows that I
- >currently do not know the language, but I need to make a
- >recommendation for the software purchase.
- >My solution is to ask the people who know. Borland, Microsoft, GNU ?
- >Help!
- >
- >Bryan Keiffer (bkeiffer@shentel.net)
-
- I would recommend either Linux + GCC or DJGPP ontop of DOS. They lack
- the whizzy "Visual" interface of MS Windows compilers which allows
- your students to concentrate on the language.
-
- Note that you might have to spend a lecture or two on make and an
- editor.
-
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- Andrew Taylor |email: davidt@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
- |www: http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~davidt
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