The Modula-2 experience
Nan C. Schaller · ACM SIGCSE Bulletin · 1988
The 1987-88 school year represents the first time that the Undergraduate Computer Science Department at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has offered its five quarter course programming skills sequence with Modula-2 as its primary teaching language. What follows is a description of RIT's first year Modula-2 experience including the trials and tribulations of new languages, new compilers, and untried texts. With only the first half of the sequence having been offered using Modula-2, the benefits derived from the change thus far will be discussed as well as suggestions, conclusions, and a preview of what is yet to come.