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- From: aelman@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Adam Elman)
- Subject: Re: first-year programming languages
- Message-ID: <aelman.721348230@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
- References: <1992Nov9.152324.2715@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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- Date: 9 Nov 92 22:30:30 GMT
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- kem@csri.toronto.edu (Kem Luther) writes:
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- >Not sure where to ask this. If you answer, use email so we won't
- >clutter this newsgroup with unwanted banter.
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- >I work for a college which is reviewing its first-year programming
- >environment for students who will become computer science majors.
- >The question came up: what computer languages are used in the
- >first year programming courses in other colleges? Anyone have
- >some figures on this?
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- Stanford was using Pascal until last year, when the first-year
- programming classes were redone to use C, since all the upper-level
- courses require proficiency in C.
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- Adam Elman
- aelman@cs.stanford.edu
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