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- From: agc@bmdhh298.bnr.ca (Alan Carter)
- Subject: Re: Teaching the basics
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.081825.8444@bnr.uk>
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- References: <1992Aug17.123916.14815@husc13.harvard.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:18:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.123916.14815@husc13.harvard.edu>, peregrin@husc13.harvard.edu writes:
- |>
- |> Basically, I'm giving you all the oportunity to tell a programming
- |> teacher what to better prepare students with.
- |>
- |> Thanks,
- |> James
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- Teach them that it is OK not to know the *right* way to do something straight
- off. That sometimes *days* of contemplation are needed before a real
- understanding of a problem is reached. Show them that if they find
- themselves layering shovelfuls of meandering source riddled with special cases
- and mutually cancelling areas of complexity then there is almost certainly
- a better way to do things. Don't let them value listings by the yard.
-
- Alan
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- Maidenhead itself is too snobby to be pleasant. It is the haunt of the
- river swell and his overdressed female companion. It is the town of showy
- hotels, patronized chiefly by dudes and ballet girls.
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- Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome, 1889
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