On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 11:00:18 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 05:03:29 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
The most important thing for newbies, either new to the
language or new to programming, is "instant gratification". If
it compiles and works, people are more likely to be
enthusiastic about it. Give them useful examples and use cases
and they will begin to see how useful programming is and start
thinking about applications, however trivial they may be, they
can write themselves for their own personal use (a little
clock, a calculator for VAT ...) In this way they will start to
think as both developer and user, add features, go ever deeper
into programming. Creating useful things, that's what it's all
about, isn't it?
Thanks for your last paragraph. That's what I was talking about.
