CS:2820 Survey, Fall 2015
Part of
the CS:2820 Object Oriented Programming Collection
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Background: On Aug. 25, 2015, the first day of class, a survey was distributed to the students in Object Oriented Software Development. The results are summarized here.
Computer Support: What kind of computer do you routinely use?
| Apple Mac | ______ | 9 | ||
| Linux | ______ | 1 | ||
| Windows | ______ | 24 | ||
| Windows | +Mac | 8 | ||
| Windows | +Linux | 7 | ||
| All of em | 1 |
CS/CLAS Linux Experience: Have you used linux.clas.uiowa.edu or linux.cs.uiowa.edu?
| Yes | ______ | 23 | ||
| No | ______ | 27 |
If yes, how did you access it?
| NoMachine | ______ | 2 | ||
| PuTTY | ______ | 6 | ||
| SecureCRT | ______ | 2 | ||
| SSH | ______ | 5 | ||
| NoMachine | +PuTTY | 5 | ||
| NoMachine | +SSH | 1 | ||
| PuTTY | +SSH | 1 | ||
| None of em | 1 |
Shell Experience: Have you used the Linux or MacOS command shell?
| Yes | ______ | 39 | ||
| No | ______ | 11 |
Programming Languages: What programming languages do you know pretty well?
| C | ______ | 14 | ||
| C++ | ______ | 21 | ||
| C# | ______ | 3 | ||
| Java | ______ | 41 | ||
| Perl | ______ | 0 | ||
| Python | ______ | 39 | ||
| Ruby | ______ | 1 | ||
| Other | ______ | 13 |
The other languages listed included (in no alphabetical order): Agda, COBOL, Javascript (2), Lisp, Matlab (3), Objective C, Ocaml, PHP, Swift (3), and Visual Basic (2). (Parenthetic numbers indicate the number who claimed that language.) Languages such as HTML and CSS were not counted as, while they have syntax as elaborate as programming languages, they are not usually considered to be programming languages. Everyone who listed one of these other languages also listed Java.
One person did not report knowing any programming language. This is obviously a serious concern.
Two people only listed Python, these two students may face a bit of culture shock with the C-like syntax of Java.
One only listed Java; so long as they really do have both CS I and CS II in this language, they should be OK.
12 listed just Java and Python; and a few had just C++ and Python or C++ and Java. Presumably these students had CS I (or its equivalent) using one of those languages and CS II using the other. If people took this course where it was intended in our curriculum, these 2-language students would make up the majority of the class, but because many students take it late, they are a decided minority.