On Wednesday 20 January 2010, Matthias Johnson wrote: > In regards to public schools I think computer programming is a hard > nut to crack. When I took it the language of choice was qbasic. I > learned some stuff but it was disappointing to look at doom and > then the crap I wrote.
Programming classes in college: same thing. And in all the college programming classes I took (Basic, Pascal, C, several C++, Perl, and several others I forget), they only covered single-file procedural programming rather than any event-driven multi-file GUI programming. The classes gave us the basics so that we could do some useful things, but not enough that we could make a full application without further learning on our own. It's necessary to "start small", otherwise students can easily be overwhelmed with both complication and the amount of time a project could take. > You could look at the nibbles and bananas > examples and realize it was never going to be what you dreamed, > and there was a ton of code just for those! For the most part programming is a larger effort than many give it credit for. What can I say, "ignorance is bliss" :-P -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Feb 3 - Arduino Mar 3 - Sahana and 7 Years of MHVLUG Celebration Apr 7 - Nagios
