[Petition to National Department of Basic Education] Re-evaluate the implementation plan for standardising to Delphi over Java

[Alen Ribic]

Hi All,

This past Tuesday, I met in person with Deputy Minister Enver Surty regarding the implementation plans to standardise to Delphi over Java with respect to Basic Education.

A number of people and myself, from both the industry and academic setting, have studied the document entitled "IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR STANDARDISING PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR 2015" [1]. This document was put forward by the Department of Basic Education in response to the criticism they received in the media. Study of the document shows that the rationale behind the standardisation to Delphi is flawed in several aspects.

What I'm proposing here, and asking for, is support in calling for the National Department of Education to action a re-evaluate process that would see a number of inaccuracies with respect to Java, the programming language and technology, be addressed in the revised document. We believe that these inaccuracies have had a significant effect on the final proposal which supports Delphi as the programming language of choice.

You can support this "call to action" by signing the below petition.
https://www.change.org/petitions/re-evaluate-the-implementation-plan-for-standardising-to-delphi-over-java

Regards,
-Alen Ribic

[1] https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2146210/IT%20Tools%20Stadardisation%20Implementation%20Plan.pdf

[Richard Kolb]

+1 Alen

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[Alen Ribic]

To give an example of what some of the statements in the Recommendation section of the document look like:

Section 4 "Recommendations" page 13, reads "Delphi is ideal for learning programming as it is a strict, yet forgiving language. You don't need to worry about things such as case, its compiler tells you where your errors are ...".  Failing to make any mention whatsoever that Java offers no less than this to the programmer.

Spread the word ladies and gents and let the truth prevail.

-Alen