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Re: Required common programming language




Well here is a good chance to see whether we have any consensus. Suppose
we are voting on which programming langauge ALL students learn in
elementary school, that we have the power to mandate this choice to all
school systems and the funds to empower them to actually teach it, so that
we can build on that knowledge later. Do you vote for Basic, Pascal,
Java, C+, ...

To change the direction of the thread a bit...

Ah ha! Finally something I might be able to humbly comment on, being a former
educator and working in the computer field now.


What ever happened to LOGO?....when I was doing consulting('79-'81 part
time..made as much as teaching but gave it up in favor of teaching) for
a local engineering firm the 'kids' were doing LOGO on Apples and
Commodores(may have been even TI)...students programmed a little
'turtle' on the screen. Teaching languages like Pascal or C+ don't work
well at the high school level..it's useless to even consider for
elementary level...15 hears ago we had two full time programming
teachers(12 sections) now there is a struggle for a single section.
<<Larry>>