Eiffel for Universities

Why Use Eiffel for University Coursework?

With Eiffel you are not stuck within the confines of one environment. Eiffel allows students to focus on the concepts, not on notational details. Countless educators have remarked how much easier it is to teach C++, Smalltalk, Java or even C once the students have mastered the techniques of modern system construction through Eiffel.

Students agree, and so do corporate recruiters and journalists. According to Amy Cody-Quinn from Management Recruiters International, quoted in ComputerWorld: "There is a big problem with people who say they know C++ -- but they don't really know how to do objects. If they have Eiffel on the resumé, then we know they really have the proper understanding of what they are doing."

Students with a narrow set of skills are sure to lose in today's competitive job environment. With Eiffel you build a strong basis from which students can learn all the major approaches to software construction. You equip them with the problem-solving skills that will make them able to learn new languages and tools quickly and effectively. As Steve Tynor wrote in the Journal of Object-Oriented Programming: "In Eiffel there is no long laundry list of low-level things you should and should not do... The consequence is that in the Eiffel culture the problem domain becomes the central focus of concern... The programmer has more time to design for reusability, to implement the design correctly, and to ensure that both the design and the implementation properly model the domain. After all, creating systems for solving real-world problems is why we write programs in the first place."

What better motto for your students?