I was under the impression that the idea behind a discussion list
was to allow people to express their opinions. I simply expressed an opinion.
One could accuse your email of attempting to stifle freedom of expression, but
I'd never agree with such an accusation!
Enda
Or it could have been an
Enda,
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 09:15 +0100, Enda Dunican wrote:
I was under the impression that the idea behind a discussion list
was to allow people to express their opinions. I simply expressed an
opinion. One could accuse your email of attempting to stifle freedom
of expression, but I'd never
It indeed seems that there is no consensus over
what is a good language to start studying computer
programming.
I think that almost any language will do when only
the basic things are taught. On the page
http://www.naturalprogramming.com/all_example_programs.html
I
So Kari raises a corollary - to what extent does it matter what mental
model of a computer the student has?
But this is also on the dimension of abstraction. For example, 'how main
memory works'. This might be at the level of addresses, binary contents
and read/write operations. Or at the more
Thanks for the comment, Walter.
My words in the previous message were, as usual,
inaccurate. I should have said that it is important
that a student knows how a computer works in a
LOGICAL sense. This means, for example, that everything is stored
as binary numbers in the
Dear PPIGers,
the recent thread is about which language to choose for an
introductory programming course. I have another question which is
closer to the original intention of this mailing list: what skills
from high school are needed to be able to pass such an introductory
programming class?
One
That's an interesting point. As practitioners we spend almost all of
our time looking at stuff that doesn't work because we haven't
finished or it's broken.
That said, I disagree that the language doesn't matter. C++ is just
too complicated, most professionals I know choose to ignore half
Hi. I have been casually watching this discussion but feel that my recently
completed thesis might be of interest to some particularly those thinking of
mental models and conceptions of a program.
As I am not in an academic position at present, I am not able to take my
work to what I see as the
