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John Stout escribió:
> I teach Computing at A-level standard at a sixth form college (17-19 year
> old) in the UK. We have recently moved over to using Visual Basic as our
> only language, rather than Pascal (Turbo Pascal 6) in the first year and
> Visual Basic the second. The evidence that we have, and other teachers we
> have met agree, that the standard of students' understanding is going down.
> The first language does indeed affect how they program in the future.
>
Other options:
- Java (free)
- A free PASCAL compiler
- C++ (GCC)
- A scripting lang, like Ruby, Python, etc...
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