>Actually, after further thought, I wouldn't even suggest a language right away. I'd teach them the concepts of logic, breaking down a problem to simper ones, then putting the solutions at work individually and then making these individual solutions work together.

I partly agree, at least. I think would-be CS students should get theur hands dirty right away with coding & interface (with maybe BASIC & HTML good for newbies, as I said elsewhere). But simultaneously, some more theoretical course work is good, also.

I was once a CIS major, before I moved to math & statistics, and our first year we had a 2-semester required course called 'Discrete Structures', kind of a meaningless name, but it was full of Logic, Number Theory, Algorithmic Theory, Design Theory, and other goodies that were extremely useful in both CS and math...maybe the best course I ever had in my educational process...