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- From: mschaeff@pilot.njin.net (Marc Schaeffer)
- Newsgroups: comp.edu
- Subject: COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION
- Keywords: COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION
- Message-ID: <Aug.28.14.04.18.1992.17355@pilot.njin.net>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 18:04:18 GMT
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- Hoping this is an apporpriate inquiry for this group. Please respond
- to mschaeff@pilot.njin.net as I don't get to browse newsgroups as
- often as I'd like.
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- I'm interested in hearing from Computer Science educators regarding
- the various multi-user systems used in undergraduate computer science
- education. Specifically, I'm interested in comments on the premise
- that one can't conduct a high quality undergraduate program without
- extensive use of an IBM mainframe in order to provide students with
- exposure to a VM operating system, PL/1 and IBM Assembler. Are more
- people teaching PASCAL or C or something else in introductory courses
- these days rather than PL/1? What about Assembler? Are other
- Assembler platforms (e.g., SUN/SPARC) able to support a high quality
- undergraduate course?
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- In sum, any advice about the importance of wide (i.e., in lots of
- courses) use of an IBM mainframe, as opposed to other multi-user
- systems (VAX, SUN/SPARC, RISC based boxes, 486/50 PCs running UNIX) in
- an undergraduate Computer Science curriculum would be much appreciated.
-
- Please note: I am not a computer scientist. Any ignorance in this
- question should be attributed to my role as an administrator trying to
- explore a problem beyond my academic expertise.
-