> We know relatively little about what leads to success in programming.
An interesting question then is how much we know about learning anything! Why do we think learning to program is different from learning anything else? Relating it to personal experience, I found programming second nature, enjoy it immensely and it is what I do best - I don't even recall actively "learning", it all seemed pretty obvious (except quicksort which I have never understood). But I have "learned" (or tried to learn) many other things and I don't think that any of the learning experiences have been different from each other. Of course, the things I have been trying to learn are things that I want to do and am quite motivated towards. I have a strong phobia about swimming and have never learned to swim well : I would actually like to swim, but even trying to start lessons is hard I hate it so much, but when I *have* been taught the experience is not a lot different to other things and I can see that if I could stick at it I would get there. Learning the sax has been interesting since I know the music part of it already and what is left is purely sax technique. But again, the learning experience seems much the same. Why do we (or you or others) think programming is different? WHat evidence is there that it is different and if it is different what is it most like? L. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
