render@cs.uiuc.edu (Hal Render) (11/02/90)
Hi,
I'm putting together a survey to find out what programming languages are now
taught in introductory Computer Science classes at the undergraduate level.
If you teach an intro programming or data structures course or if you have
taken such a course in the last three years, I'd greatly appreciate it if you
could take a few moments to answer the following questions and *e-mail* your
responses to me at one of the addresses given below. I will post a summary
to the net. Thanks in advance for your help.
hal render
render@cs.uiuc.edu
render@zeppo.colorado.edu
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Survey Questions:
1) Are you a student, a professional programmer, or an instructor?
2) What programming language do (did) you use in your introductory
programming and data structures courses?
3) Do you feel that the language is a good one for this purpose?
4) What other language (if any) would you prefer?
----jncs@uno.edu (11/02/90)
In article <1990Nov1.183157.6740@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, render@cs.uiuc.edu (Hal Render) writes: >Hi, > >I'm putting together a survey to find out what programming languages are now >taught in introductory Computer Science classes at the undergraduate level. >If you teach an intro programming or data structures course or if you have >taken such a course in the last three years, I'd greatly appreciate it if you >could take a few moments to answer the following questions and *e-mail* your >responses to me at one of the addresses given below. I will post a summary >to the net. Thanks in advance for your help. > >hal render >render@cs.uiuc.edu >render@zeppo.colorado.edu > >---- > >Survey Questions: > > 1) Are you a student, a professional programmer, or an instructor? > Associate Professor. Computer Science Department. University of New Orleans. 2) What programming language do (did) you use in your introductory > programming and data structures courses? Ada for computer science majors since fall/1984 Pascal for Liberal Arts majors FORTRAN for Engineering majors > 3) Do you feel that the language is a good one for this purpose? Ada is very good for teaching purposes. It was hard to get started teaching it. But now, we have enough support material that eases the teaching task. > 4) What other language (if any) would you prefer? Probably a functional programming language such as Miranda. Functional languages have a rather trim syntax and semantics and are very powerful and excellent examples to teach principles of programming. ----
render@cs.uiuc.edu (Hal Render) (11/03/90)
I would like to thank everyone who has responded to my survey so far. If you haven't, please take a moment to do so and *e-mail* (not post) your responses to me. I promise to post a summary. Also, George Mitchell at MITRE mentioned that there was a survey similar to mine carried out sometime within the last year. If anyone remembers this survey and knows where I might find the results or who I might contact to find them, I would greatly appreciate an e-mail message concerning this. Thanks very much. hal render render@cs.uiuc.edu render@zeppo.colorado.edu