ActionScript as a teaching language

[Paul King]

I understood that it is taught for none of those reasons. Besides what I 
mentioned, Java has objects but no pointers (in a U of T course I tutored, they 
had a clever way of faking it, though). The high school curriculum teaches OOP, 
but pointers are not a required part of the curriculum.

Paul King

On 4 Jan 2006 at 17:23, Lennart Sorensen (Lennart Sorensen <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>) spaketh these wourdes:

> On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 11:53:44PM -0500, Paul King wrote:
> > This is why I wouldn't teach Python, because the scoping would not be obvious 
> > enough. I wouldn't teach C/C++, because it is too loosely-typed. Java is a little 
> > better, and is also taught alternatively with ActionScript, because its typing 
> > and scoping rules are more sensible. I would personally favour Java.
> 
> One of these days the java fad will end, people will stop going by
> buzzwords, and we will all be rid of the classpath hell, and run
> everywhere code that never does.  Really. :)  Or so I wish.  I can
> dream, can't I?
> 
> Len Sorensen
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