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Re: Teaching Java, teaching what?

From Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Teaching Java, teaching what?
Date 2013-12-15 18:17 -0500
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <l8ldcp$p17$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References (7 earlier) <CAHpu.432668$E8.51222@fx27.iad> <52ace3fe$0$297$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <mKoru.412872$7U2.304716@fx29.iad> <l8l7fv$gnn$1@dont-email.me> <prerequisites-20131215225934@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>

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On 12/15/2013 05:02 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> writes:
>> I keep reading this thread and wondering where Stefan Ram and his
>> students fit into <http://www.acm.org/education/curricula-recommendations>.
>
>    The classes need to have a certain number of reservations.
>    If there are less reservations, a class will be cancelled.
>    My beginner and advanced classes in Java and C++ sometimes
>    have the required number of reservations, so they can take
>    place sometimes. But there are not enough students to split
>    the classes into different classes for different types of
>    students.
>
>    (I am willing to teach any programming language as long as
>    the classes take place. For example, I'd love to teach
>    Haskell, Groovy, or Scala, you name it. But there will not
>    be enough reservations. Once, I announced a Perl course, but
>    there were only 3 reservations, and the class was cancelled.
>    So essentially, students decide which languages I teach by
>    attending or not.)
>
>    However, the classes clearly state their prerequistes.
>    The prerequisites for my beginner's programming classes
>    where set by me as: »Students know how to operate a computer
>    (copy a file and so), but do not need to know any
>    programming language.«. If someone already knows a
>    programming language that's fine, he still can participate,
>    but should not complain when he hears what he already knows.
>
>> Adult students. Perhaps they all have the core of _CSTA K-12 2011_
>> and are heading toward one of the "five defined sub-disciplines of
>> computing" in _Computing Curricula 2005: The Overview Report_.
>
Yep. I guess I should have asked "A first course in Java and its'
students" rather than "Stefan Ram and his students". There have
been a lot of "topics in computer science" bantered about. I'm
just trying to get it into some perspective. Lost in the topic drift.

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Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2013-12-09 13:20 +0100
  Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2013-12-09 16:17 +0100
    Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-09 20:02 -0500
      Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2013-12-10 11:56 +0100
        Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? lipska the kat <"lipskathekat at yahoo dot co dot uk"> - 2013-12-10 12:07 +0000
          Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2013-12-10 13:39 +0100
            Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? lipska the kat <"lipskathekat at yahoo dot co dot uk"> - 2013-12-10 12:56 +0000
              Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2013-12-10 14:38 +0100
          Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-14 20:05 -0500
        Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-14 19:58 -0500
          Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-12-15 03:49 +0100
          Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2013-12-15 11:29 +0100
            Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? lipska the kat <"lipskathekat at yahoo dot co dot uk"> - 2013-12-15 10:55 +0000
          Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-12-15 16:54 -0400
  Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-12-09 12:02 -0400
    Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-12-09 21:49 +0000
    Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-09 20:11 -0500
      Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-12-09 17:58 -0800
      Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-12-10 10:22 -0400
        Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-10 11:02 -0500
        Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-12-10 12:47 -0400
          Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-14 18:04 -0500
            Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-12-15 16:58 -0400
              Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-15 16:36 -0500
                Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-15 18:17 -0500
        Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-14 17:59 -0500
          Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? leif.roar@invalid.com (Leif Roar Moldskred) - 2013-12-15 04:20 -0600
            Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2013-12-15 12:23 +0100
            Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-15 10:00 -0500
            Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-12-16 10:28 -0400
          Re: Teaching Java, teaching what? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-12-15 21:32 -0400

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