On Jul 9, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Mike yearwood wrote:
> I agree that fundamentals are good, but "Hello world" is not
> fundamental. What I see is
>
> Step 1 - Hello World.
>
> Step 2 - A loop that prints hello world - no reuse of the first hello
> world "module". Copy and paste is not reuse.
>
> Step 3 - another looping program with some branching without any reuse
> of any of the previous stuff.
>
> Step 4 - monolithic useless programs
>
> etc. etc.
Wow, that's pathetic instruction. I guess if you assume that that's
the only way anything can ever be taught, then you are correct. But
once you make the tiny change of assumption that there might be less
idiotic instructors/authors possible, the argument falls apart.
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