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Intro CS: Python, Java, C, Lisp, or Haskell? (self.teach_programming)

submitted 10 months ago by DaleGribble88 to c/teach_programming

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How does your school/university teach it? What have been the pros and cons of that choice?
Obviously, teaching students logical and foundational concepts is the most important part, but a student's first programming language does color their internalization of the concepts and how they approach solving different problems. For example, OOP is really hard to grasp coming from a functional background. Learning how to manage memory efficiently and use appropriate data types is really hard coming from an interpreted language like Python or Javascript. What have you and your peers decided works best for you and your students?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

By "the most exposure to writing code the better" I might have meant to expose people to as many paradigms and patterns as possible and them have dealt with it. i.e. Writing a (shitty) eventloop is what really made it stick for me with async/callback-based programming.