On Sep 14, 2004, at 4:14 AM, Michael Toomim wrote:
On Sep 14, 2004, at 1:02 AM, Michael Toomim wrote:
3) Education theory has been debating the validity of trying to teach generally transferrable skills for at least a century. I don't know of any specific results for the ability of programming skills to transfer to other aspects of life, but it seems that making a rigorous argument for it would be difficult.
And here are a couple of references to this line of research.
And here's one explicitly reviewing the research on transfer of programming skills to problem-solving:
@Article{palumbo,
author = {Palumbo, David B.},
title = {Programming language/problem-solving research: A review of relevant issues},
journal = {Review of Educational Research},
volume = {60},
number = {1},
pages = {65-89},
year = {1990},
keywords = { }}
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