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  1. Newsgroups: comp.edu
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!ukma!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!sage.cc.purdue.edu!ahern
  3. From: ahern@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Sean Ahern)
  4. Subject: Re: first-year programming languages
  5. Message-ID: <BxM23H.1Ho@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
  6. Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News)
  7. Organization: Purdue University
  8. References: <1992Nov9.152324.2715@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1623@airgun.wg.waii.com> <1992Nov12.035044.3964@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
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  10. Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:06:53 GMT
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  13. Here at Purdue, we start our introductory Programming classes with Pascal.
  14. The second semester course starts introducing abstract data structures with
  15. more Pascal, but also starts teaching C and csh.
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  17. -- 
  18. Sean Ahern-----------------ahern@cs.purdue.edu----------------Purdue University
  19. Q: What is the primary objective of a street gang member?
  20. A: To pronounce the word "motherfucker" in one syllable.
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