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- From: howesb@fraser.sfu.ca (Charles Howes)
- Subject: Re: first-year programming languages
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.064540.24246@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Nov9.152324.2715@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1992Nov10.025941.9166@linus.mitre.org> <1992Nov10.170442.7853@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 06:45:40 GMT
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- >>In article <1992Nov9.152324.2715@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> kem@csri.toronto.edu (Kem Luther) writes:
- >>>
- >>>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?
-
- At SFU, we have Modula-2, QuickBASIC, and Pascal.
-
- Modula-2 is used in CMPT-101, the absolute first course for a CMPT SCI
- degree.
-
- QuickBASIC is used in CMPT-100, programming for non-CMPT SCI people.
-
- I'm not sure where Pascal is used, but I helped someone who was doing a
- first-year assignment using Pascal.
-
-
- There are also 6 single-credit correspondence courses that teach Cobol,
- C, PL/I, Fortran, Pascal and Smalltalk. They are additional languages, but
- still are labelled 'first year'.
-
- I suspect a review of our own is in order...
-
- --
- I am a *student*. Trust nothing I say.
-