Yuvi Panda wrote:
Anna University starts with C, then jumps to Bash (?!!?!) and then jumps
back to C and C++. I've no idea where it is going (I'm in my third sem, and
we're with a new curriculum), but I've seen glimpses of Flash(?!). 99% of my
friends gave up on programming a month into the course - C isn't exactly the
best first language, and Bash is just... curious.
That is a 'colorful' cornucopia of choices to make the future Software
engineers!
The college, I studied in (under West Bengal Univ. of Tech), begins with
C in the 2nd semester, and for a lot of people, that is the first
language- and C programming is taught with Turbo C on MS-DOS. Going
ahead, some C++, Java, JSP, BASH scripting is taught. And what do the
average student (by avg. I would fine, the student who has no "deep"
interest in programming, but just wants to get the job done- which could
mean, get marks!) finally end up with? Programming Languages: C, Data
Structures.
Compared to that, the ICSE schools have a better programming syllabus
these days- they start with LOGO, then some BASIC( GW/QBasic), then C++
and then some Java, but no Python. sigh.
If I could, I would teach students Lisp after LOGO, after all LOGO is a
LISP dialect!
my random bits.
-Amit
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Rajeev J Sebastian <
rajeev.sebast...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Abhishek Mishra <ideam...@gmail.com>
wrote:
It happens that at ICSE schools java/c++ is offered for almost last 4
years of schooling, while my CBSE experience was horrible, with no
programming in syllabus till class 11th. While way back in an ICSE
school, programming started at class 6 with GW-BASIC and that language
was fun.
At Bharatiya Vidya Mandir school at Kochi, we started on BASIC in the
5th std. It was CBSE.
Engineering First+Second Sem at CUSAT, it same thing BASIC .. after
two years of C++ at school.
Makes you wonder who the hell makes these things. So my opinion is,
schools can and do change depending on how good the teachers/principal
are. But whats really bad are the universities, where its not so easy.
Regards
Rajeev J Sebastian
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