Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!sunic!uunet!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.clark.net!seabrook From: seabrook@clark.net (Seabrook) Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: Teaching BETA Date: 5 Jan 1995 14:04:51 GMT Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA Lines: 24 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3egua3$8u0@clarknet.clark.net> References: <3ecb84$l4g@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> <3eghuh$cd1@fbi-news.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: clark.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Wilfried Rupflin (wr@polly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de) wrote: [ some deleted throughout ] : At University Dortmund, CS dept., it was decided to introduce BETA : as the main language for teaching starting with this winter term. : Currently the beginner's introductory lecture (called Programming I) : is run with BETA. Surprisingly we had neither didactical nor technical : problems so far (with over 300 students!). Can you provide some particulars about this course, such as what compiler, platform and text you are using? In the latter case, is there an english translation? I agree with you and previous posters that C++ is a bit complex for beginners trying to grasp the fundamentals of the OO approach. Dick S. -- @-------------------------------------------------------------) | seabrook@clark.net _ Anne Arundel Community College | | (410)541-2424 <>:-) Computer Science | @-------------------------------------------------------------)