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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!husc-news.harvard.edu!peregrin
  2. Newsgroups: comp.programming
  3. Subject: Teaching the basics
  4. Message-ID: <1992Aug17.123916.14815@husc13.harvard.edu>
  5. From: peregrin@husc13.harvard.edu
  6. Date: 17 Aug 92 12:39:15 EDT
  7. Organization: Harvard Business School
  8. Lines: 31
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  10. Hi,
  11.     I help teach the intro to programming course here at H.U.'s night
  12. school, and before the fall semester starts I am wondering what basic
  13. programming skills you all think really need to be worked on at the
  14. introductory level?
  15.     This course is meant to teach students the basics.  Even though it
  16. is in C, we don't really touch on pointers, and the fanciest thing we teach
  17. is recursion (which most don't get anyways).
  18.     So if you look around at your fellow programming peers (perhaps the
  19. the entry level ones), what basic skills do you wish they were better prepared
  20. in?  Documenting?  Indentation? top-down problem solving? Debugging? Numeric
  21. methods?  Better understanding of hardware (cpu, terminal i/o)? Efficiency?
  22. Engineering skills ? (like kludging vs. recoding; writing code so that it
  23. can be maintained in the future; time management; reliability; human
  24. interfaces?)
  25.  
  26.     Basically, I'm giving you all the oportunity to tell a programming
  27. teacher what to better prepare students with.
  28.  
  29. Thanks,
  30. James
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  32. | James Peregrino                        |       peregrin@hbsstg.harvard.edu |
  33. | Programmer/Analyst                     |       PEREGRIN@HULAW1.BITNET      | 
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