Timeline for Criteria for selecting language for first programming course

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Feb 25, 2013 at 18:08	comment	added	vonbrand		One important point (at least today) is that it allow students to build visually attractive programs soon and painlessly. They are exposed to so many graphics-intensive applications and games that they naturally think that that is how computers are supposed to interact with people.
May 21, 2012 at 11:59	comment	added	AProgrammer		+1 for "what the goals of your course are?" and an additional note, one of the most common goal even if it isn't spelled is to give the basics for other things (courses and internships) which have programming as prerequisite.
May 21, 2012 at 10:19	comment	added	Callum Rogers		Yikes, read this and thought it one of my lecturers. +1 for Oberon, so long as the use lowercase keywords switch is automatically enabled; so painful to write `WHILE expr DO stmts END` etc.
May 21, 2012 at 9:38	history	edited	Pedro	CC BY-SA 3.0	This kind of proves the point in a special way.
May 21, 2012 at 9:36	comment	added	Pedro		@avakar: Aw, crap. I'll fix this in my answer, thanks for pointing it out!
May 21, 2012 at 9:12	comment	added	avakar		There's actually a split in circuit design between VHDL and Verilog.
May 21, 2012 at 0:04	history	answered	Pedro	CC BY-SA 3.0