[plt-scheme] Re: More pedagogic stuff

From: wooks (wookiz at hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 13 10:40:15 EDT 2008

On Aug 11, 11:11 am, Matthias Felleisen <matth... at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> My hunch is that to
> this day, 90% of these places claim to teach OO early and first.
> (Reality: At least they use an OO language to teach Fortran.)
>

It is not dissimilar to the approach of some elite research
universities. Teach imperative programming in Java/C++ as an
introduction and move on to OO features in a subsequent course or
latter part of the same course.


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