stephen@uowcsa.cs.uow.oz (stephen) (04/13/88)
The Computing Science Depatment at the University of Wollongong is considering using Modula2 as its First Year teaching Language in 1988 for 1989. We are currently using MacMeth for some undergraduate project courses, but find that this is unsatisfactory in a number of ways for use with First Year. On behalf of the Department, I would like to ask if any other Computing Science (or equivalent) departments are using Modula2 on the Apple Macintosh for their undergraduate courses. Our first year laboratory is using 512K Macs with one drive at present. Thus, a minimum configuration of Modula2 is needed run on these machines. MacMeth could supply these needs, but are there any other Macintosh Modula2 systems out there that we could use? Either reply directly to me, or post an answering article in comp.lang.modula2. I will be watching. Thank you for your cooperation. Stephen Nicholson Proffesional Officer The University of Wollongong Stephen Nicholson ACSnet: stephen@uowcsa Dept. of Computing Science UUCP: ...!munnari!uowcsa.oz!stephen Uni. of Wollongong ARPA: stephen%uowcsa.oz@uunet.UU.NET
salmon@utah-cs.UUCP (William Salmon) (04/16/88)
The University of Utah is using Modula-2 on Macintoshes in our Intro. to C.S. course. We are using a shareware package called MacLogimo Plus, available for $18.50 from Timothy L. Myers 614 North 1150 West Provo, Utah 84601 He's also on CompuServe -- user number 74027,35. MacLogimo runs on Macs with at least 512k RAM and two 800k floppies, and that's the configuration of our instructional machines. It will even run on a Mac II (all except the debugger). MacLogimo suffers from a crude, unMacish user interface, but has caused no serious problems in two quarters of teaching. The $18.50 buys you an unlimited educational site license -- you can give away unlimited copies to students as long as it's for educational purposes only. --- One other Modula-2 compiler that might be suitable for minimal hardware situations is the one sold by TDI Software 10410 Markison Road Dallas, TX 75238 It costs $89.95 for the student version. --- We have not used TML or SemperSoft Modula-2 because these require the MPW, running with 1Meg or more of RAM and a hard disk. ===== Bill Salmon Computer Science Dept. University of Utah salmon@cs.utah.edu