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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!husc-news.harvard.edu!peregrin
  2. Newsgroups: comp.programming
  3. Subject: Re: Teaching the basics
  4. Message-ID: <1992Aug19.135744.14889@husc13.harvard.edu>
  5. From: peregrin@husc13.harvard.edu
  6. Date: 19 Aug 92 13:57:44 EDT
  7. References: <1992Aug17.123916.14815@husc13.harvard.edu> <Bt6DGq.HuB@metropolis.com> 
  8.  <1992Aug18.190506.9935@cc.gatech.edu> <1992Aug18.230426.26425@lucid.com>
  9. Organization: Harvard Business School
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  12. In article <1992Aug18.230426.26425@lucid.com>, johng@lucid.com (John Gregory) writes:
  13. > 
  14. > |> In article <1992Aug17.123916.14815@husc13.harvard.edu>
  15. > |> peregrin@husc13.harvard.edu writes:
  16. > |> 
  17. > |> > [...] Basically, I'm giving you all the oportunity to tell a programming
  18. > |> > teacher what to better prepare students with.
  19. > |> 
  20. > 
  21. > Have them work on a *group* project and force them to deal with integration
  22. > issues.  Not many people hack alone in the real world, and the one's who
  23. > do are often painfully unaware of the problems of integration (no flames 
  24. > please).
  25. > 
  26. > 
  27.  
  28.     This is done in later courses.  Should it be done in the introductory
  29. course?
  30.  
  31.     The reason I started this thread in comp.programming instead of
  32. comp.edu, was that I wanted feedback from programmers, not teachers of
  33. programming.  I felt that programmers know best what skills they see lacking
  34. in their peers.
  35.  
  36.     I've had lots of good responses and I will be summarizing soon.
  37.  
  38. But first, another post ...
  39.  
  40. -James
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  42. | James Peregrino                        |       peregrin@hbsstg.harvard.edu |
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