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On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:24:28AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > In a more ideal world, I prefer a programming student be taught the > principles of programming possibly with another language. C and C++ are > difficult first programming languages. Pascal is probably better but no one > in their right mind would use Pascal any more :-) Pascal is an excellent first language -- and that's pretty much all it's good for, at this point. There's no reason not to teach Pascal to beginners. > Java might be a better first language today because it is both structured, > Object Oriented, and does not have some of the vagaries of C or the > complexity of C++. Most CS curricula seem to do this these days. I'm not sure it's a good idea, because people then try to do things in Java as well... -dsr-
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