My experience learning Pascal (Score 1)

It seems appropriate for me to mention that Pascal was the second language I learned during high school. In 1984 the school had the hardware and we were lucky enough to have a math teacher who knew what to do with it.

The semester-long class was originally for FORTRAN. The teacher used a method where we wrote our own programming manuals through the semester. Each day we had a lesson that became a page in our manuals and then we did a programming project in teams. It was such an effective way to teach a language that we all had our manuals done with six weeks to go. We were given the choice of doing larger FORTRAN projects or moving on to Pascal. We chose Pascal and got pretty far in the six weeks left.

I still have both of those manuals twenty years later. Truly one of the best educational experiences I have had.