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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Studying computer languages is a worthwhile endeavor, but I would not do this in the intro CS course; especially for non-CS majors.<div><br><div>I do agree that this is important when trying to understand how the high level code maps into assembly ... especially for speed and efficiency considerations. It is eye-opening to deliberately write a "bad" code snippet and critically analyzing the assembly -and- follow that that with a "well" written snippet.</div><div><br></div><div>I do not believe optimizing compilers is an excuse for writing bad code. <img src="https://a.gfx.ms/Emoji_1F60F.png" alt="Emoji" class="Emoji$1F60F$AC5 RenderedEmoji" style="font-size: 12pt;"></div><div><br></div><div>--Ed Bujak</div><div><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/cstaphilly/home">CSTA>>Philly</a> - VP<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 11:19:15 -0400<br>From: michael.kazis@gmail.com<br>To: alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu<br>Subject: Re: alice-teacher Graphic Computer Programming Additional Curriculum<br><br><p dir="ltr">Alice is based on Java. Perhaps you can assign them an actual java program that uses methods and let them see the similarities between alice and the Java language.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Mike</p>
<div class="ecxgmail_quote">On May 15, 2014 8:33 AM, "Emily Higgins" <<a href="mailto:erphiggins@gmail.com">erphiggins@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Dear All -<div> I have taught Alice in my programming class for the past three years. I need to add more to the course - I have become more efficient in my teaching. Does anyone have particular recommendations of what languages or projects I could add for the portion of the year after I've used Alice? I would like it to be something different from Alice.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thank you all -</div><div>Emily Higgins</div><div>Boothbay Region High School</div><div>Boothbay Harbor, Maine</div><div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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