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At the university of Antwerp they gave Oberon as the first programming language for Computer Science (back in 1997). The reasoning of the professor was so that
by koonsolo 7y ago
At the university of Antwerp they gave Oberon as the first programming language for Computer Science (back in 1997). The reasoning of the professor was so that everyone started from scratch, because nobody would know it already.
It was indeed an eye opener on how many different things there can still be. Especially the mouse key combinations that you had to press were pretty unique.
Never used it ever since that first year, but it's hard to forget because it was so different.
- Koshkin 7y ago> eye opener I've never gotten around to being comfortable with mouse chording, which makes me think that it was a rather odd idea.
- Joeri 7y agoI was in that same class. I recall that same professor also used smurf analogies to explain programming concepts. A peculiar man. I have fond memories of learning oberon. It gave me a deeper understanding not just of programming but the almost arbitrary conventions of popular OS’s, in where to draw the line between code, documents and applications (in oberon they were all the same thing), and how to use keyboard and mouse to manipulate items on a screen.
- igitur 7y agoWas also taught in Computer Science 178 at Stellenbosch University in 1997.