JIM@UCF1VM.BITNET (Jim Ennis) (12/02/87)
Hello, Here at the University of Central Florida the Comp Sci Dept is changing the Comp. Sci. curriculum, one of the changes was shifting from Pascal (WPASCAL on an IBM 4381-2 running CMS) to Modula-2 (Logitech Modula-2 running on a IBM PC based LAN). The text book used for the intro class is: "A First Course in Computer Science with Modula-2" 1987 Luis J. Pinson, Richard F. Sincovec, and Richard S. Wiener John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-81692-2 The text for the second low-level class is: "Data Structures Using Modula-2" 1986 Richard F. Sincovec and Richard S. Wiener John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-81489-X These were the "best" books that the faculty could find after a pretty good search. They are planning to use the books next semester so they seem to have a pretty good opinion of the books. Jim Ennis University of Central Florida
kumard@CS.BUFFALO.EDU (Deepak Kumar) (12/08/87)
We also went through this decision making process about textbooks
for our intro courses at SUNY Buffalo. We used Sincovec and Weiner's
Data Structures book for CS2. However, since then (SP86) we have
switched to David Riley's books : Intro To CS using Modula2
and Data Structures using Modula2. These books have been in use
for two semesters now and students seem to like them a lot.
(It does have a multi colored priniting which is characteristic
of some Info. Science type texts, that is because the publisher
Boyd and Fraser specialized in such texts, and this is their first
venture into this area).
The books stick very closely to the prescribed curriculum and I
like th eorganization of chapters and presentation of the material
a whole lot better. The books come packaged with a free implementation
of Modula2 for the PC. The publisher is very responsive. You should look
into these texts before making a decision.
Deepak.