On 01/07/07, Lindsay Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bjorn Reese wrote:
The students used longer titles, such as count number of
occurrences and find if any element is of some sort, whereas the
professionals used short titles, such as count and find.
This could indicate that the looping
Some arbitrary thoughts
1. 'Learning to program' is not atomic - it might include the syntax and
semantics of a given language, learning abt data structures and
algorithms, trying to understand a given paradigm (eg OOP), developing
problem-solving skills. So maybe different parts of learning to
Oh, by the way...
A while ago, Mark Guzdial wrote:
[...] If we're agreed that there is no geek gene,
I don't agree with that contention at all, in the
sense that I believe that some people have a knack
for technology that others don't, that that knack is
as much a part of their make up as their
So I would be, frankly, astonished if it could be shown that
*everyone* is equally trainable in programming to a
professional standard, any more than it could be shown that
everyone could learn to be a professional golfer or a
professional artist or a professional mathematician or a
On 3 Jul 2007, at 3:20 am, Lindsay Marshall wrote:
So I would be, frankly, astonished if it could be shown that
*everyone* is equally trainable in programming to a
professional standard, any more than it could be shown that
everyone could learn to be a professional golfer or a
professional
