Re: studies of naming?

2012-03-29 Thread John Daughtry
and ever will exist. Steven -- From: Richard O'Keefe Sent: 29/03/2012 07:55 To: Steven Clarke Cc: John Daughtry; Brad Myers; Raoul Duke; Ppig-Discuss-List Subject: Re: studies of naming? On 29/03/2012, at 3:39 AM, Steven Clarke wrote: We don’t have the luxury

Re: studies of source code line purposes?

2011-10-06 Thread John Daughtry
With respect to the UI portion... Here is a paper by Myers and Rosson from 1992: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=142789 On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Raoul Duke rao...@gmail.com wrote: hi, along the lines of a thought i've had of late why is there so much *code*!?, i wonder if anybody

Re: Call for advice, and possible case study?

2011-06-10 Thread John Daughtry
hates it so much that they cannot make themselves be excited about it. John Daughtry On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Russel Winder rus...@russel.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 19:47 +0100, Stasha Lauria wrote: I fully agree on both: 1- Don't teach Java. 2- before learning

Re: evalutation of new tools to teach computer programming

2011-03-01 Thread John Daughtry
I would suggest taking a more holistic view of the design space. Rather than asking which tool is best, you may be better served by seeking to empirically describe and explain the underlying trade-offs. In what ways do option1 help, hinder, and undermine learning? In what ways do option2 help,

Re: Intuitiveness of programming languages/paradigms

2009-11-24 Thread John Daughtry
Maybe it is time to rewrite K-12 math books to be in line with computational processing. It would be great. Imagine dad at the dining room table trying to explain to little Johnny... 100 Cheerios are here, and if we add another, we have -100 Cheerios. Sorry, I couldn't help myself. With respect

Re: static and topicality

2009-08-07 Thread John Daughtry
Chris brings up an interesting point... the underlying strategy. I think the strategic intension of the usage is more interesting than the pattern by itself. Take these strategies for example (off the top of my head): 1. Use static whenever a method doesn't access attributes 2. Use static