Education - Programming

Bob Palank · Guest

A new online Introduction to Programming course in our community college
will be taken by those who choose career paths in areas such as Computer
Support Specialist, Network Specialists, DataBase Developer, Network
Administrators, and Software Developers. Originally we had a course in
VB.Net but felt that the 3 hour course was too narrow and overly detailed
for these majors. Instead, we are considering a two language course that
covers basic businessapplications. Languages under consideration are Java,
VB.Net, and VC#.Net.

Given the Visual Studio IDE and the heavy use of these languages in our
market, we tend to favor using C# and VB in parallel for the first third of
the course in which students write the same program in each language. After
that, the student would continue in the single language of his/her choice.

Your constructive comments and opinions (pro and con) are invited.

Bob