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   From: zander@sumax.seattleu.edu (Carol Zander)
   Organization: Seattle University, Seattle WA

   I'm currently teaching the standard beginning sequence of programming at
   Seattle University using Oh My! Modula-2!  We're at the end of the
   second course.  In the evaluations of the first course, the majority of
   students strongly disliked the book and I tend to agree with them.
   The book does not develop smoothly.  The examples are poor -- some just
   stupid and some too complicated.  He uses all non-standard libraries.

   Overall, the book isn't terrible, but it's not good either.  I'm looking
   for a different text for next year.

	We are using Cooper's book here at Ohio State for the introductory
courses for cis majors and are quite happy with it.  This is the first
quarter   we  have used  it  and also  the first  quarter  that I have
received positive comments on the required text from students.  I have
not seen a Modula-2 text that I would rather teach out of thus far.

	As far as the examples, they appear to have been chosen to support
Cooper's philosophy of software design and engineering, which incorporates
top-down design and object-oriented design.

	The  use of non-standard libraries should  not  be a disadvantage,
since the  "standard" ones are  rarely implemented correct  wrt Wirth.
Cooper's IO module is much cleaner than either the InOut provided by 
Metrowerks (for the MAC) or Sun.

dave...
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