On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 17:40:29 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
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.
Well this is pretty much why I got confused by initial question -
it does not have much to do with D itself. It would have fitted
more some kind of educational psychology newsgroup or something
like that. Language specifics don't have much impact here, it is
something that students start to recognise only after they have
been deep into programming for some time already.
