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  1. Newsgroups: comp.programming
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!ames!agate!apple!mumbo.apple.com!wingosmac.apple.com!user
  3. From: wingo@apple.com (Tony Wingo)
  4. Subject: Re: first-year programming languages
  5. Sender: news@mumbo.apple.com (The News System)
  6. Message-ID: <wingo-111192171446@wingosmac.apple.com>
  7. Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 01:18:05 GMT
  8. Distribution: na
  9. References: <1992Nov9.152324.2715@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
  10. Organization: Apple Computer
  11. Followup-To: comp.programming
  12. Lines: 20
  13.  
  14. In article <1992Nov9.152324.2715@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>,
  15. kem@csri.toronto.edu (Kem Luther) wrote:
  16. > 
  17. > Not sure where to ask this.  If you answer, use email so we won't
  18. > clutter this newsgroup with unwanted banter.
  19. > 
  20. > I work for a college  which is reviewing its first-year programming
  21. > environment for students who will become computer science majors.
  22. > The question came up:  what computer languages are used in the
  23. > first year programming courses in other colleges?  Anyone have  
  24. > some figures on this?
  25. > 
  26.  
  27. I had a friend who teaches at a university back east, and I know that for a
  28. while they were starting their CS students off with SNOBOL4 and LISP "To
  29. shock the BASIC out of them" :-).
  30.  
  31. -tony
  32.  
  33. >>ususal disclaimer<<
  34.