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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!ibmpcug!mantis!jonathan
  2. From: Jonathan Egre' <jonathan@mantis.co.uk>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.programming
  4. Subject: Re: Teaching the basics
  5. Message-ID: <3g8sPB2w165w@mantis.co.uk>
  6. Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 15:30:13 BST
  7. References: <12635@anderson>
  8. Distribution: world
  9. Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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  12. anderson@Software.Mitel.COM (David Anderson) writes:
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  14. > Other general points in teaching any language:
  15. > 
  16. >   o Meaningful Identifiers. Please make sure the student is not using variabl
  17. >     names like "a" when you really mean something like "tax_rate"!
  18.  
  19. This fault is largely the result of people not being able to type properly.
  20. Therefore I suggest that the students be taught to type reasonably well
  21. (seriously).
  22.  
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  24. Jonathan Egre' = jonathan@mantis.co.uk = jonathan_e@cix.compulink.co.uk
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