From: James Cunningham <jameshcunningham@...>
Date: 2006-12-09T09:20:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Fwd: Seymour Papert Gravely Injured in Motorbike Accident

On 2006-12-08 11:55:02 -0500, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" 
<znmeb@cesmail.net> said:

> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>> Trans wrote:
>>> Logo should have become the Basic of today.
>>> 
>> It wasn't for lack of trying that it didn't, actually. The original 
>> "target market" for Logo was elementary school children, and the target 
>> market for BASIC was undergraduates. It simply takes longer for an 
>> elementary school child to become a decision maker than it does for an 
>> undergraduate. :)
>> 
> Along those lines, what do they teach undergraduates today? Mostly 
> Scheme and Java, I think.

Primarily Java and C++. I think Scheme is a quirk of some of the 
tougher schools.

At my school - the University of Kentucky - C++ is taught from the 
beginning and used in almost every undergraduate programming course 
thereafter, with the occasional domain-specific exception. I think this 
is a mistake, but nobody asked me.

Best,
James