Re: Is MCSD worth doing?

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From: The Poster Formerly Known as Kline Sphere (._at_)
Date: 01/22/05 

Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:59:04 +0000

>Agreed, but you are always going to get a contingent of
>students that had improper, inadequate or no exposure to
>programming - and you don't want to hit them over with OO
>and programming simultaneously in the first semester. I
>suspect thats one of the reasons MIT uses Scheme during the
>first year. And C is definitely NOT a first language despite
>its lack of OO. Now the second langauge in the curriculum
>should be OO.

I don't think that should be an issue. As you know C is simple,
following a simple syntax which is only made powerful by the standard
(and 3rd party) libraries. The problem solving capabilities are no
different in C than in other procedural programming languages; and
dynamic memory allocation/deallocation should not be seen as some
stabling block!

Also, it's harder for people to unlearn something and re-learn the
same thing in a different way. This can be seen with Cobol vets with
20+ years who cannot (or maybe will not) look at implementation in any
other way than with a procedural approach.

Kline Sphere (Chalk) MCNGP #3

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