Dave Mennenoh wrote:
How do you handle onLoad's famous scope? ... It is not magic or
advanced. If a pattern was shown to a new programmer without giving
it a fancy name, they would just accept it as the best way to do the
task and would never give it moment's thought.
Right. Delegate - ie Proxy. I agree. I wasn't saying patterns
shouldn't be taught, or used - I doubt you could teach a Flash class
these days without teaching Observer, but you might not ever call it
that. In fact, I wonder who does call it that in a class? Actually,
the more I think about it, I think for students it might be best not
to call these patterns and just teach them. Then, once they know how
to use them, tell them what they are. It's a bit like teaching
encapsulation I think - if you just show your students how to write
classes, and they see how classes work for organizing code, they will
likely just use them.
That is what I have been saying from the start of this discussion. You
do not have to teach the fancy names. Just teach them to use proper
coding practices. OOP and Design Patterns are just names that we use to
group a bunch of best practices into theories so we can discuss the
theory and have a framework to critique code. I have a feeling that for
most of us, the word polymorphism is not much of a help and I see no
reason to even use the word on 14 year olds until the last week of class
and only then as a warning that someday someone might try to use it on
them in a discussion about design.
Ron
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