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In article <1501@shuksan.UUCP>, scott@shuksan.UUCP (Scott Moody) writes:
> Remember that the first language you are taught in CS101 is also the 
> main language you use throughout undergraduate education (outside of
> the many languages course).

That's not my experience. The intro course I skipped, but it was in
Fortran. Then there were a couple of courses in Pascal, an assembly
language course, and then mostly C with occasional forays back into
Pascal and Fortran (for EE courses, mainly). This was some years ago,
of course, but I would hope that things haven't narrowed *too* much
since then.

And if the intro course is too easy for a student, they should test out
of it like I did. You can't assume that just because someone had a computer
before they came to university they knew anything about programming.

Sure, you can call the intro course a remedial course, but you're doing
people a disservice. By the criterion you're applying most of the first-
year courses fit that description, in any discipline... I know I was
horrified by the stuff they were going over in first year Math and Physics.
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