At 6:49 AM +1100 9/3/99, Michael Feldman wrote: >Hi all, > >Nick Parlante of Stanford University has developed some very nice >CS teaching materials at http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/. > >Among his new releases is a cute little QuickTime movie called >"Pointer Fun with Binky". He put out versions for Pascal, C, C++, >and Java; the movie ius the same for all languages, with the code >bits appearing as captions at the bottom of the screen. > >Naturally I could not resist translating his code bits to Ada >and asking him if he could create an Ada version, so he did it! >It's just in time for my CS2 lab on pointers. > >This is cute - have fun. > >Cheers - > >Mike Feldman I've _always_ had an _excellent_ response to teaching pointers by using cardboard squares, wool with paperclips and sticky tape. Puts the "multi" back in multimedia, and requires no high tech equipment. Dale