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Recommended Citation: Raoufi, M and J Maniotes.  Why C# and Why .NET in The Undergraduate Information Systems Curriculum.  In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2004, v 21 (Newport): §2132. ISSN: 1542-7382. (A later version appears in Information Systems Education Journal 3(43). ISSN: 1545-679X.)
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Why C# and Why .NET in The Undergraduate Information Systems Curriculum

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Mehdi Raoufi    [a1] [a2]
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
Southwestern Oklahoma State University    [u1] [u2]
Weatherford, Oklahoma, USA    [c1] [c2]

John Maniotes    [a1] [a2]
Department of Computer Information Systems and Information Technology
Purdue University Calumet    [u1] [u2]
Hammond, Indiana, USA    [c1] [c2]

Considering the rapid pace of changes in the software field and the limited courses that a student can take in languages, the question is which languages are crucial for students to learn in an undergraduate IS curriculum. This paper investigates the necessity of teaching C# and .NET in the undergraduate IS curriculum. It explores the pros and cons of .Net versus J2EE for applications development and differences between C#, C++ and Java, and which one may be the best language for teaching first programming course in IS curriculum.

Keywords: C#, .NET, framework, platform, common language runtime, CLR, intermediate language, IL, undergraduate IS curriculum

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