It is well known that it is impossible to use currently available tools to test for ability to program computers.
In their paper http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf, Dehnadi and Bornat claim to finally have a test, which can predict one's ability to program. It would be very interesting if the volunteers, running various programming courses in schools and MATNASim, can administer similar tests to their pupils and report correlations to actual programming ability at end of the courses. Note to self: the following are the major semantic hurdles, which trip up novice imperative programmers: 1. Assignment and sequence. 2. Recursion/Iteration. 3. Concurrency. (I wonder whether there are any interesting additional concepts hiding after the 3rd one.) Novice declarative programmers have to leap the following semantic hurdle: - Argument substitution. --- Omer -- You haven't made an impact on the world before you caused a Debian release to be named after Snufkin. My own blog is at http://tddpirate.livejournal.com/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
