computing in C/C++

[one20...@yahoo.com]

Hello,

If you can do interactive, interpretive computing and programming in C/C++ for teaching,

do you think it is helpful? 

There is a C/C++ interpreter Ch from Softintegration. 

( http://www.softintegration.com/academic/ )

Its standard edition is free for commercial use.

All python examples in google's site for teaching can be converted in a second using C/C++ and run interactively in Ch across platform.

Peter

[davi...@googlemail.com]

I was also thinking that JavaScript might be a good language for students to use as well. No separate compiler install necessary because everything gets compiled by the browser at run-time.

[Jean Griffin]

David,

In case you're not aware of it already, you may want to check out Larry Snyder's
Fluency book. I believe he used it for a pilot CS Principles course and that it
delves in to javascript.

- Jean Griffin

[Phil Wagner]

There is also Google Code University which has tutorials on Javascript, C/C++, as well as APIs and algorithms.

http://code.google.com/edu/