On: Why teach with Ruby?

[kenjackson]

So I taught intro CS for CS majors. I can totally believe that for a subset of non-CS majors this could be more problematic.

My old submission program wouldn't let them turn in programs that won't compile (nor will it let them submit without it passing the example tests I gave them).

This was about eight years ago... Maybe students just aren't as smart anymore ;-)

[BCGC → kenjackson]

Absolutely agree :)

But seriously, if the students turn in programs that won't even compile, I'd say the blame should be on the TAs and the Profs!