I came across my old Amstrad CPC 464 while trying to organise clutter at the house. It pains me sometimes that I didn't make better use of learning how to program that computer when I was a child. I did a little bit but didn't have the grounding in the theory to really understand programming. There were the programs to type in available in Input magazine but I would look at the many pages of code and not have the attention span to sit and type it all out. It probably doesn't help that in that situation I would just be blindly copy typing a program without really understanding what it did. A bit like these students grabbing code of Google. My best friend growing up started programming at a pretty young age. For my part I wanted to be an electronic engineer when I was young and not a programmer. Back then it was easier to play a game someone else had made than learn how to make one.
I would like potentially to get involved in the universities teaching of programming. The question I ask myself is that it is one thing to know how to do something and quite another to be able to teach it to others. I wonder if one of the hardest aspects may be that I am now so grounded in the theory that it may be hard to try and look at programming from the perspective of the students. It would enjoy helping someone else to enjoy something which I enjoy myself. I think I have my own degree of attention deficit....oooh shiny!.... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
