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On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:47 PM, harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> wro=
te:
> http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/inf1/fp/
>
> http://www.cs.ou.edu/~rlpage/fpclassSpring97/
>
>
> There are lots of these... =A0 the two above afaik are still doing this a=
t the
> entry level... =A0 =A0... supposedly, these kids are 'mostly' successful =
and
> exit interviews are great... =A0but that doesn't fit with the observed id=
ea
> that students are not doing well in comp sci classes generally... but, re=
ad
> below... =A0this at the entry level??

I'll grant you Edinburgh.  That Oklahoma syllabus is from 1997.  The
2010 syllabus for the entry-level course indicates that it is taught
in Java.