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- From: rns@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Robert Noel STURROCK)
- Subject: Re: first-year programming languages
- Message-ID: <9231816.18673@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <1992Nov9.152324.2715@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 05:14:16 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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- This Univeristy is switching to a functional language for its first
- year course next year. The language is "Miranda", a lazy, purely
- functional language.
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- Rob
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