[soc.college] First Language Taught in CS Track

toddf@petsd.UUCP (Todd Feldman) (08/06/87)

I must say, as an undergraduate CS student, I think Ada is a
fine language to teach and one of the most important to be taught,
but I am very leary of teaching it to beginning CS students, especially
those who are just taking the intro course as a distribution requirement
or something like that.  However, if features like tasking, representation,
and such are avoided in the beginning class, it is a great idea to 
expose students to Ada early on.  Having had many years of computer 
experience, I personally couldn't picture learning Ada in its full glory
without having learned a language like Pascal or Modula-2 first.  Ada is
just too huge and too complex.