[Greg McKaskle]

I'm happy to hear that you are able to teach the kids to program in LabVIEW, and if you have the ability and time, I'd encourage you to add in another language. Another approach would be to rotate through the languages over the years so that the students can experience various tools and languages. I would hope that support is not a barrier to this. If you have suggestions as to how to improve it, please offer them.

In my opinion, students destined to become engineers or scientists should have some exposure to a programming tool. Students destined to become computer scientists or computer engineers will gain exposure to all sorts of languages, and C++ is still very common in industry, but not necessarily as a teaching language. It is indeed more challenging. Fun, ... I suppose it depends on the amount of success.

I certainly hope your fears aren't justified.

Greg McKaskle