From: Garance A Drosehn Date: 2006-03-19T08:46:01+09:00 Subject: Re: Are college professors teaching computer science with ruby? ------=_Part_3907_6695891.1142725544835 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On 3/17/06, anne001 wrote: > > > Does anyone know of any college course? One of my friends is a new professor at Sienna college in Albany NY. He teaches ruby as part of his "Programming Languages" course. He also wrote a paper for some educational conference on using ruby in coursework, and the first place he submitted it to noted "other professors have already done something similar to this". He rewrote the paper so that it emphasized different aspects of his teaching, and I believe that was accepted at a different educational conference. With the new "Learn to Program" book from the pragmatic programmer guys, it wouldn't surprise me if some more high schools would use ruby for teaching an "Intro to programming" course. I was just in Borders, and I was surprised to see that they had quite a few copies there. ("surprised", because this particular Borders has recently cut back their computer-books section quite a bit...). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn =3D drosihn@gmail.com Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA ------=_Part_3907_6695891.1142725544835--