On Wednesday 30 June 2004 19:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Introductory Computer Science should not be taught with C++ anyhow... > CS should be introduced with Scheme. It's a superior teaching language. > > http://www.htdp.org/ > http://www.teach-scheme.org/ > > The introduction to htdp explains the philosophy behind my statement > above. What do you think?
Cool. I have heard Pascal referred as the ideal teaching language. BB (Before Borlant), I did large stuff in ISO Pascal--the compiler was a front for the assembler and this made it very easy to fill in the missing pieces (like random file access). One can still do stuff in Delphi (latest Borland Pascal derivitive) that is just too hard to do in Msoft VC++/ Scheme is a LISP-child but really is cute.
