Schools that have switched to the How to Design Programs (http://www.htdp.org/ http://www.htdp.org/) curriculum for their intro classes would beg to differ! Of

Schools that have switched to the How to Design Programs (http://www.htdp.org/ http://www.htdp.org/) curriculum for their intro classes would beg to differ! Of course, whether that specification+testing approach to development is carried through to the rest of the curriculum is another story :-)