Fw: PPIG discuss: Programmer education ain't what it used to be

2008-01-19 Thread Richard Bartlett
- Original Message - From: Richard Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Luke Church [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 10:57 PM Subject: Re: PPIG discuss: Programmer education ain't what it used to be Hi PPIG people. This is a topic very dear to my heart at the moment,

Re: Fw: PPIG discuss: Programmer education ain't what it used to be

2008-01-19 Thread Paola Kathuria
Richard Bartlett wrote: I think I would be tempted in more if the PPIG communications system wasn't so unattractive, inefficient and clunky.. why can't it be a normal bulletin board? Oh, but it can. PPIG has had two mailing lists since 1997; they're hosted for free by the company I used to

PPIG discuss: teaching programming, cognitive apprenticeships and Piaget

2008-01-19 Thread Steven C. Shaffer
Richard wrote: To program beyond simple set piece exercises requires a certain mindset. According to Arzarello, Chiappini, Lemut, Marara, and Pellery (1993), an important part of learning to program is the sudden transition from simple computational attempts to the synthesis of the whole in a