GideonG: In Nigeria they are still teaching Basic Programming language in introductory computer science.
We are so 1979! They world has moved forward.

Javanian:

There is nothing wrong with the Basic programming language as an introductory to programming in computer science.

@o.p. IMO It is a very good move. Introducing programming to computer science students with Java and C++ is wrong in almost any angle you look at it from...

spikesC:

how, pls elaborate

Javanian:

On which part?

GideonG: In Nigeria they are still teaching Basic Programming language in introductory computer science.
We are so 1979! They world has moved forward.

Djtm:
nobody teaches basic at higher institutions anylonger. The worst you can get is fortran. My kid brother took basic in ss2 or 3.

Djtm:
nobody teaches basic at higher institutions anylonger. The worst you can get is fortran. My kid brother took basic in ss2 or 3.

DharkPoet:
Well we were taught Qbasic in our 200L, Computer Engineering, if that counts.

spikesC:

ESUT teach qbasic in 2nd semester, 100L and fortran in 1st semester 200L.
internet and web design in final year

dhtml: It counts actually, but . . . for a professional profile?

DharkPoet:

Nope, professional profile? I must be kidding then.

Javanian:

There is nothing wrong with the Basic programming language as an introductory to programming in computer science.

@o.p. IMO It is a very good move. Introducing programming to computer science students with Java and C++ is wrong in almost any angle you look at it from...

asalimpo:

there's everythg wrong with teachg Basic. EvRY THING WRONG.
the only reason this nonsense can go on in Nigerian Institutions is because Lecturers get away with too much slackness. What does it take a H.O.D to browse d net,see d trends and revise the departments curricmulum?

digitite:
Maybe he or showshe doesn't understand the intricacies of such language, let alone introducing it into the curriculum.

spikesC: I got the opportunity to lay my hands on the internet and web design handout.
It was a series of webpages from an old website that teach web designing.
You can see the click here texts, the website address on every page. Infact to cut the whole story short, it was a simple CTRL + A, CTRL + C, CTRL + P.

Most textbooks in the Nigerian Universities are ebooks found online, they will print it as is, without any edits, and put their passport at the back with their biography and claim they wrote the book.

In most of the text books, you'll see watermarked images as the front image

Infact, it was so weird that there was an exact textbook used in UNN and also used in ESUT but with differient back covers and differient authors


All these so called textbooks are sold between 1500 and 3000. The students must buy it because the lecturer will give you a mark for it. Infact, the earlier you buy the higher the mark

When you buy the textbook, you'll receive a serial number. You must write the serial number on assignment and quiz you write, else, it won't be marked

spikesC: I got the opportunity to lay my hands on the internet and web design handout.
It was a series of webpages from an old website that teach web designing.
You can see the click here texts, the website address on every page. Infact to cut the whole story short, it was a simple CTRL + A, CTRL + C, CTRL + P.

Most textbooks in the Nigerian Universities are ebooks found online, they will print it as is, without any edits, and put their passport at the back with their biography and claim they wrote the book.

In most of the text books, you'll see watermarked images as the front image

Infact, it was so weird that there was an exact textbook used in UNN and also used in ESUT but with differient back covers and differient authors


All these so called textbooks are sold between 1500 and 3000. The students must buy it because the lecturer will give you a mark for it. Infact, the earlier you buy the higher the mark

When you buy the textbook, you'll receive a serial number. You must write the serial number on assignment and quiz you write, else, it won't be marked

DharkPoet:

That is the deploring status quo of the Nigerian tertiary education! 500L senior colleagues looked confused when the lecturer was teaching for loops using C++ in class, but believe me when I tell you that even the lecturer was confusing himself.

DharkPoet:

That is the deploring status quo of the Nigerian tertiary education! 500L senior colleagues looked confused when the lecturer was teaching for loops using C++ in class, but believe me when I tell you that even the lecturer was confusing himself.

spikesC: I got the opportunity to lay my hands on the internet and web design handout.
It was a series of webpages from an old website that teach web designing.
You can see the click here texts, the website address on every page. Infact to cut the whole story short, it was a simple CTRL + A, CTRL + C, CTRL + P.

Most textbooks in the Nigerian Universities are ebooks found online, they will print it as is, without any edits, and put their passport at the back with their biography and claim they wrote the book.

In most of the text books, you'll see watermarked images as the front image

Infact, it was so weird that there was an exact textbook used in UNN and also used in ESUT but with differient back covers and differient authors


All these so called textbooks are sold between 1500 and 3000. The students must buy it because the lecturer will give you a mark for it. Infact, the earlier you buy the higher the mark

When you buy the textbook, you'll receive a serial number. You must write the serial number on assignment and quiz you write, else, it won't be marked

asalimpo:
There is no excuse for this other thn laziness and apathy.
If their counterparts in other countries are writg textbooks in mainstream programming languages alongside keepg their jobs wat does does a nigerian lecturer have to say?
The languages in use are over 40+yrs old. You cant get current textbooks on them. How old must it b in a fast changg field where new languages are created evry year and updated every month (in some case)?
Students shud push against this crap theyre being spoonfed.

Java is almost 20 years old. Scala almost 8, clojure around 6, c++ almost 30,python 24 . How long would it take a lecturer to learn a mainstream langauge enuff to teach it and upgrade a mouldy curriculum?
A year(at most at a very lazy pace).
There's no valid excuse.