Jython vs Squeak for teaching multimedia

Mark Guzdial guzdial at cc.gatech.edu
Wed Jun 26 16:27:41 UTC 2002


I'm not planning to teach objects-first.  I'm planning to teach a more 
imperative style and introduce objects at the end.  It's not obvious to 
me that objects first is the right approach with non-majors.

Mark

On Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 06:01  AM, Diego Gomez Deck wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was reading this thread silencely. But I read some extrange arguments 
> and I'd like to share with you my point of view.
>
> Supose that tomorrow the market says "To program is like to cook", 
> we'll find a lot of people wanting to learn to cook, isn't it?  But 
> most of them don't realize the diference between cooking and 
> programming.  So they decide to go to school/university to learn from a 
> group of people that know the diference.
>
> I don't want to spent (again) a lot of time in a discussion about 
> sintax. But i found easier to teach ST sintax than Java, C++ or Python 
> sintax.  Of course if you teach in a way like: "the IF in ST is like 
> that, the WHILE in ST is like that, etc, etc" instead of teaching 
> "object and messages" the sintax is not clear.
>
> In my opinion is a BIG mistake to teach object paradigm with other 
> languaje than ST or Self.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Diego Gomez Deck
>
>




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