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- From: chavey@jalapeno.cs.wisc.edu (Darrah Chavey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Macintosh Pascal Upgrade?
- Keywords: Symantec, bugs, Pascal
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.155111.1429@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 15:51:11 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.223725.622@massey.ac.nz>
- Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu (The News)
- Organization: Beloit College, Beloit, Wisc.
- Lines: 21
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- In article <1992Jul21.223725.622@massey.ac.nz> P.Etheridge@massey.ac.nz writes:
- >
- >The Computer Science deparmtent here are currently using Mac Pascal for
- >introductory courses. One suggestion by SYMANTEC, via its NZ agents, is to
- >upgrade to THINK Pascal, but the teaching staff feel this product is too
- >complex for introductory courses.
- >
- >What I would like to know is the following:
- > ...
- >4) What compilers do other Computer Science departments at Universities use at
- >introductory levels?
- >
-
- We use THINK Pascal, including our "liberal arts" programming course. It
- doesn't seem too hard for the students. You have to explain the different
- between a program and a project, but it just gives us an opportunity to talk
- about the difference between source code and object code; which should be
- discussed in an introductory course anyway.
-
- -- Darrah Chavey
- Beloit College
-