Subject: Re: Felleisen giving a talk at UW? What a good idea...
From: Craig Chambers (chambers@cs.washington.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 22 2002 - 17:57:11 PST
And, given 14x's service role to the rest of the university, what skills the
students have when they come out. Java skills are more practically useful that
Scheme/ML skills. If we can get the right concepts (for the first 2 qtrs of
programming) in the Java context, then we can have the best of both worlds. We
can't get the right concepts out through the C/C++ morass, IMO.
-- Craig
Vassily Litvinov wrote:
>
> My impression from Felleisen's talk is that the language that you teach in
> does not make the difference. Remember he discussed how they came up with
> Scheme without parens and everybody said "I don't care, parens were not a
> problem." It is *what* you teach about the language (like, what concepts,
> in what order etc.) and what environment you give to students that's important.
>
> (I was too shy to say it, but now that Craig said it, I can, too :)
>
> v
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