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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!mips!swrinde!gatech!cc.gatech.edu!news
  2. From: ross@cc.gatech.edu (Rosario DSouza, J)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.programming
  4. Subject: Re: Teaching the basics
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug18.190506.9935@cc.gatech.edu>
  6. Date: 18 Aug 92 19:05:06 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug17.123916.14815@husc13.harvard.edu> <Bt6DGq.HuB@metropolis.com>
  8. Sender: news@cc.gatech.edu
  9. Organization: College of Computing, Georgia Tech
  10. Lines: 13
  11.  
  12. In article <1992Aug17.123916.14815@husc13.harvard.edu>
  13. peregrin@husc13.harvard.edu writes:
  14.  
  15. > [...] Basically, I'm giving you all the oportunity to tell a programming
  16. > teacher what to better prepare students with.
  17.  
  18. I believe that one important skill that a programmer should be
  19. equipped with is the desire to be a perfectionist - in the things
  20. that matter. Careless thinking habits when writing a program can lead
  21. to the waste of a lot of time in debugging the program.
  22.  
  23. ..Ross D'Souza
  24. ross@cc.gatech.edu
  25.