RE: those darn newfangled languages WAS: RPG III

My two year associate's school used Assembly as the "weed out" language.  I
actually quite enjoyed that class.  That was as recent as 1998.  I believe
my bacholer's school used the same language to weed out the wanna-bes.


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rpg400-l-bounces+michael_schutte=bobevans.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on
02/09/2007 10:11:17 AM:

First off, as far as I know most schools still do their introductory
computer science courses in Java or C.  Secondly, your point about "drag
and drop" programming is why I would want to hire someone who took a
computer science rather than someone who took "programming".  I did half
my degree at one school and half at another, and in both cases the
language used was secondary to the programming concepts taught.  After
school, I was looking at some "programming" courses in the interest of
keeping my skills up-to-date.  As far as I could tell, they teach the
languages rather than teaching the software design and programming
concepts.  As far as I am concerned, anyone who learns one programming
language ought to be able to pick up another one fairly quickly - the

only

major gap being between object oriented and structured, and between
imperative and declarative programming.

Knowledge of techniques, concepts and practices is much more important
that knowledge of a specific language or operating environment.

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