> CS education has always been fraught with debate over what to teach, > and - more to the point - in what order to teach it. After 26 years of How many educators does it take to change a light bulb? One to turn the bulb, but at least two others to offer unsolicited and mutually contradictory critiques of the methodology, The original said "language teachers" (Earl W. Stevick, Memory, Meaning, and Method, 2nd Ed.,1996) but it applies pretty well to education--and software engineering--in general, doesn't it? -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau