Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 06:56:24 -0600 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:56:21 +0000 From: lipska the kat <"lipskathekat at yahoo dot co dot uk"> Organization: Trollbusters 3 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130308 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? References: <52a5b585$0$2906$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <52a5df22$0$2920$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <52a66816$0$296$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <52a6f363$0$2880$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <52a70b91$0$2885$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <52a70b91$0$2885$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-fu9Vf/D3Zp5GpqurwaOOvTZ8327A1W7tHzqBm02KfwxMJv4row3ar5lMB3zrTAJEyjQpmDcQf+mT23b!H4vrG1HYsRPyQ8go60/NSaOYhPRsIbk2fNPX+7csLIJHNKb6JhH3ifDQhvk3JK2a1nneihftDQ== X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2240 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:26821 On 10/12/13 12:39, Silvio wrote: > On 12/10/2013 01:07 PM, lipska the kat wrote: >> On 10/12/13 10:56, Silvio wrote: > I used to teach assembly (PDP-11 and IBM S/370), C and C++ in about the > same way, except that I had to use floppy disks. Worked great except > that floppy disks where extremely unreliable. Heh heh, my first Slackware came on 23 floppy disks downloaded over the university network and installed on an old 386 with a monochrome monitor ... jeez, floppy disks, how long ago does that seem now? -- Lipska the KatŠ: Troll hunter, sandbox destroyer, treacherous feline and farscape dreamer of Aeryn Sun GNU/Linux user #560883 - http://www.linuxcounter.net