- 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,
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
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