On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Julian Leviston <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Concrete is better than abstract for learning.
>
> Definitely.  Programmer students should learn assembler and write a
> couple of assembler programs.
>

Concrete doesn't mean "low level". It means "not abstract". A spreadsheet,
for example, is concrete and high level. Logo Writer is concrete and high
level. Wire diagrams are often concrete and high level.

I think student programmers are well served starting concrete and high
level.

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