Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (332 mails)

["'Frank Shute'" <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:44:31PM -0000, Chris Howells wrote:
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> I don't study GNVQ IT myself, but the final straw came when I heard that
> the school had just bought VB to teach their students (they were
> origignally going to teach C++ or Delphi but couldn't afford the site
> licenses.

The best way to learn programming IMHO is unix shell. If it must be on
a Windows platform then they could use perl, or for an oo language
python or Java.

VB is a ticket to nowhere - it's platform dependent & it's unlike any
proper oo or procedural language so the skills learnt aren't really
transferable to other languages, it will also inevitably get dumped in
favour of .NET. All the languages I've mentioned will give you a head
start if you go onto uni to do cs.

Python & perl are free and I'm sure there's at least one JDK for
Windows that is free. Gvim also runs nicely on Windows.

Your school is wasting it's money & I'm not surprised you're
disgusted.

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