On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, David Bergman wrote: > Rex wrote: > > > This matches my experience, too. When I've taught Haskell to > > first year college students, there have always been some hard > > core hackers who've been at it in C or VB or Perl or > > something like that for years, and they rarely take kindly to > > Haskell. The ones without any programming background do better. > > > > I think Haskell would be great for a high school math class. > > They could learn some logic and induction along with it, and > > get a few proofs back into the high school math curriculum. > > > > Rex Page > > I have always had that same experience with any (more or less) > declarative language. BUT, as soon as the "hackers" (well, maybe not VB > programmers, they are kind of doomed...) have passed the initial > frustration, and acquired the "new way of thinking", they actually > perform much better than the real beginners. > > /David
Yes, I've seen the same thing with some of the people who come in with experience. Some are lost, but a few of them really embrace the expressiveness of a language like Haskell. Rex > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 03:03:03 +0100 > > From: Wolfgang Jeltsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: The Haskell Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [OT] Teaching Haskell in High School > > > > On Tuesday, 2003-02-04, 01:01, CET, Hal Daume wrote: > > > [...] > > > > > However, I'm also well aware that Haskell is very difficult > > to learn > > > (and, I'd imagine, to teach). > > > > Hi, > > > > I wouldn't claim that Haskell is very difficult to learn. I > > think, people > > often have problems with learning Haskell because they know > > imperative > > programming and try to apply their imperative thinking to > > programming in > > Haskell. > > > > Some months ago, a first year student told me that she liked > > Haskell very much > > and that she didn't find it very difficult. I asked her if > > she had had > > experiences with other programming languages before learning > > Haskell. She > > answered: "No." > > > > > [...] > > > > Wolfgang > > _______________________________________________ > > Haskell mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Haskell mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell > > > > _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
