[Omaha.pm] UNO course changes

[Dave Thacker]

On Monday 23 June 2008 19:23:34 Jay Weston Hannah wrote:
> Huh.
>
> Looks like UNO is abandoning C++ (and Perl and Python?) and moving to Java
> and C?
>
> Bob? Perl?
>
> j
>
>
> -----Forwarded by Jay Weston Hannah/FACSTAFF/UNO/UNEBR on 06/23/2008
> 07:23PM ----- From: Farida Majid/FACSTAFF/UNO/UNEBR
> Date: 06/16/2008 03:52PM
> Subject: FYI (C++ to Java Change in CIST 1400 & CSCI 1620)
>
>
> The following message is being send to all IS&T undergraduate students.  If
> you have completed CIST 1400 Intro to Computer Programming and CSCI 1620
> Computer Science II then you can ignore this message.
>
>
> The Computer Science undergraduate degree program at the University of
> Nebraska at Omaha is implementing the following changes to its courses
> starting Fall 2008:
>
> 1.        To be consistent with the high school AP programming requirements
> in the region and country, Java is going to be used as the programming
> language of instruction in the “CIST 1400 Introduction to Computer
> Programming” course, including its laboratory section CIST 1404, and the
> “CSCI 1620 Introduction to Computer Science II” course.

My son is currently attending Omaha North Magnet Center.  The intro to 
programming course was Scheme,  next year he'll be taking Java.  Does UNO 
have any AP classes offered at OPS schools?

Dave