Re: [TCLUG:13004] AP Comp. Sci.

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

LOL, I know another teacher at a tech school that comes on IRC just to
discuss linux, and more ways to tourcher his electronics class students.

as far as teaching CS to students.. I was in the honors CS classes up at
UMD (when there still was such a thing) and we used scheme for our first
language.  not the most usefull thing in the world, but it was great for
teaching.  tim.. you have mentioned python before, and I think that's
another good one.. things like C++ can be a little too platform specific
for students.. and teaching platforms isn't a good idea, even if it is on
linux.  CS students should be taught a language that has no
platform.. instead of teaching C++, teach java.

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Ryan Hankins wrote:
> 
> > Knowing how high school works, they probably didn't want to teach any
> > "hacking skills" that could be used to modify grades to anyone who would
> > benefit from it. ;)  High School was one big opressive conspiracy, if I
> > remember...
> 
> Whenever my students ask me why I became I teacher, I always point out
> that I get to torment children and be paid for it. They seem to understand
> that. :-)
> 
> -Tim
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