Judy.... I thnk the research is a tad mixed on the subject. I remember a wonderful book back in the mid- to late 80's called "A Small Matter of Programming" by Bonnie Nardi, an extremely bright researcher in end-user programming. Excel macros -- which I'd argue are among the most obtuse "languages" on the programming planet -- rate very high with inventive user programmers despite their complete lack of English-like syntax or rationale.
I thnk your point in general is well taken but the exceptoins are mind-blowing. On 7/9/06, Judy Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And, yet, the literature seems clear that the best languages for learning programming are those which are the simplest and employ natural-language where possible. Those employing magical black-boxes are the least desirable/effective from a 'learning to program' standpoint. What is nice about Rev and has always been nice about Hypercard was what some may well consider 'stooping to kindergarten'-level: enabling people to be minimally and comprehensibly successful with a minimal amount of time invested; and that such does indeed seem to encourage a further time investment. Judy On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Stephen Barncard wrote: > Hey we program, and we use code. What's so technical about that? > > I don't think Rev has to stoop to kindergarten level either, nor > strive to be the buddy of non-technicals. Programming with a good > tool is by nature technical. At some point words have to be used to > describe things, and these words already exist. > > I'd hate to have to use terms like "put the white box in here and the > other one over there...." _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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