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C++ was a short run, something like '99-'03. It was Pascal beforehand and Java afterwards. There's no AB course any more either. It's just one course, the equi
by pflats 13y ago
C++ was a short run, something like '99-'03. It was Pascal beforehand and Java afterwards.
There's no AB course any more either. It's just one course, the equivalent of the old A.
- yeukhon 13y agoWhen did the whole VB thing come to the table? Probably left over from the old days in intro to cs in undergraduate?
- pflats 13y agoI imagine VB classes came for the most part in the mid to late 90s where it made GUI applications nice and easy. Compared to console applications and Logo, it was a nice way to give a first-time programmer a more fulfilling experience. I taught at a school with a VB 6.0 curriculum at the end of the last decade. The (veteran) teacher just continued using his old materials; he was a math teacher with some CS experience. He kept it because budgets were tight, everything ran snappily, and new computers and textbooks are expensive. As long as a teacher is teaching programming fundamentals, it really doesn't matter (in the long run, educationally) what a student's first language is. They'll get it. Better to go with something that the teacher's good at and that interests the students.