Dimitry

Hope, this fits the category...

Hi, mons. I'm doing a project I wish you to help me on. Can you do that?

The project is concerned with programming and education. Both in connection, actually. So at the present time we're doing a brief research, a kind of overview. It consists of 8 simple questions. However, if you were to answer them (and, literally, take part in the research), it would surely become an impact on our work.

Please, do take your tame and answer these, either by replying in this particular thread, or by sending an e-mail letter to dimituri@gmail.com.

So, 'nuff said, here's the actual stuff. :p


1. How high do you think is your level in programming?
- I don't know how to program;
- Rookie (one / two years doing nothing);
- Experienced (wrote at least one useful program);
- Advanced (using several programming languages regularly).

2. What age are you?
- Less than 13;
- 13 to 16;
- 17 to 20;
- 21 to 30;
- 31 or more.

3. Name the country and the city you reside in (if it is possible).

4. If you don't know how to write programs, are you planning to start learning?
- No way, programming is for geeks;
- I would, but I'm still having a hard time trying to figure out how to find a derivative;
- I will start as soon as I will have time (or get divorced, or buy a computer, etc.);
- I haven't enough money to buy a commercial IDE, and everything that is available free is not what I am looking for;
- Yes I am. Programming is cool.

5. Do you put your programming knowledge in practice?
- I write organizers for businessmem (or any other type of private software);
- I work as a programmer in an organisation (provide names, if possible);
- I write small utilities for myself and my friends / relatives;
- I am taking part in definite Open Source projects (provide names and URLs, if possible);
- I am taking part in definite commercial projects (provide names and URLs, if possible);

6. Do you think Pascal now is the best choice for a "first language", for teaching programming (as it, perhaps, was in the past)?
- Python rules;
- Basic lives!;
- You should start with C++, because, even if it is a brain tumor to understand C++ for a beginner, it and its decendants are the most wanted languages out there.
- You should start with Java, as a great number of universities in Europe do.
- I agree Pascal is the best, but only the one in Delphi, because TP7 and BP7 in DOS is inconvenient and outdated.
- I agree Pascal is the best. Period.

7. What features (editing, building, debugging, help systems, etc.) do you think should appear in an educational evironment, targeting the process of teaching how to program?
(your own notes)

8. Name programming environments, or other software you know, that are used in the process of teaching how to program (besides software development environments themselves)? Provide URLs, if possible.