If teaching your class client server with Visual FoxPro does no harm and yet conveys the correct concepts of client server have you improved the capabilities of the students. However if the professional requirements of programmers in Argentina regularly require Delphi, and seldom require Visual FoxPro then you are probably allowing your prejudices to influence you class. May I suggest two targeted classes such as ClientServer with Visual FoxPro and ClentServer with Delphi as the class titles?

In the medical profession the ethical standard is "do no harm".

Teach what you know, know what you teach.


>Hi everyone.
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>In my free time <g> I use to be a professor at the local university. This year we are giving to students a course intitled "Client-Server Software Development", an optative course of IT Engineering career. We have sixty students, averaged 24 y.o. Several of them asked me about the possibility to learn Visual Foxpro. In fact, the course is biased: 50% wants Delphi, others wants FoxPro. As course responsable, I cannot have biased opinions, in spite the fact I have ten years with Fox products and they give me plenty of satisfactions. Of course, I want to teach VFP, but for instance my support staff develops in Delphi, so we have a little problem. The students are now looking for a wider point of view prior to make a decision. This decision could affect their professional performance as well, provided they will finish the career next year.
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>Any ideas? Any URL with interesting information about comparisons with other front end development tools? Ant ethical implicancies in this matter? Any thoughts about experiencies with Delphi when compared to VFP? Any information about Borland's future?
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>TIA
>Carlos