Computer Science Canada Waterloo's first year CS, now in Scheme flavour |
| Author: | Tony [ Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Waterloo's first year CS, now in Scheme flavour |
It has been announced a year ago that UW will be dropping Java in favour of Scheme, C, and Python. For those who don't yet subscribe to the /blog (do it here, it will be a while before it's better integrated with the forums), Prof. Prabhakar Ragde has posted a guide to what's gonna be happening in Fall 2008. Quote: Scheme is a functional programming language with simple syntax, which permits the course to focus on ideas instead of language details, and gives the students a simple model of the meaning of a program. |
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| Author: | Robert [ Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Waterloo\'s first year CS, now in Scheme flavour |
What about Software Engineering? Same deal? |
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| Author: | Tony [ Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Waterloo\'s first year CS, now in Scheme flavour |
I don't know, you'd have to check what classes SEs take in the first year. |
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| Author: | Prabhakar Ragde [ Tue Mar 18, 2008 4:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Waterloo's first year CS, now in Scheme flavour |
No. Software engineers will take two new courses specialized for SE, which will be fairly conventional CS1/2 courses using C++. --PR |
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| Author: | Yukie.ai [ Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Waterloo\'s first year CS, now in Scheme flavour |
so what my friends told me are totally true T_T"" *cross fingers just hope the final project is NOT the same >__> (aka, create an algorithm for addition w/o using the build-in "+" convention or something along the line T_T"") |
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| Author: | Prabhakar Ragde [ Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Waterloo\'s first year CS, now in Scheme flavour |
"Final project" in what? --PR |
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| Author: | Yukie.ai [ Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Waterloo\'s first year CS, now in Scheme flavour |
1st semester cs? not sure about the details, since friends were only forced to take cs (you know, math faculty) |
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| Author: | Tony [ Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Waterloo\'s first year CS, now in Scheme flavour |
If you were to read the article, you'd know that there are three different "1st term CS" classes offered. |
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| Author: | Prabhakar Ragde [ Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Waterloo's first year CS, now in Scheme flavour |
None of the first-year CS courses at UW have had a "final project" for several years now. Typically there are weekly assignments with five to eight questions, plus a bonus. Thinking about how to implement built-in functions is a technique we use in the Scheme-based courses to make sure students understand the specification and implications (e.g. for efficiency). Addition is one such exercise (implement it using only add1, sub1, and test-for-zero functions). It's worth doing this in other languages as well (e.g. figuring out how to do built-in string manipulation procedures yourself). --PR |
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