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Topic: teaching through programming
Replies: 3   Last Post: Jun 7, 1993 7:32 PM

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BRIDGER@northeastern.edu

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Re: teaching through programming
Posted: Jun 7, 1993 12:35 PM
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Another thought on teaching through programming:

I'm not happy about going to the trouble of teaching a programming
language which the students won't find useful again. LOGO does not
seem to be a language with a future for most students. Engineering
students here have to take a term of Pascal in their freshman (first)
year. Since they are our main clients for calculus, we occasionally
ask them to write a simple program to compute something. But mostly
we use a spreadsheet (Excel). I personally consider C an ugly and
(possibly) dangerous language, but I know I am in a small minority
among programmers...

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