Steven D'Aprano wrote:
There is some evidence that 30-60% of people simply cannot learn to
program, no matter how you teach them:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000635.html
http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/
I'm sympathetic to the idea, but not entirely convinced. Perhaps the
problem isn't with the students, but with the teachers, and the
languages:
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/PDF/SevenDeadlySins.pdf
(My money is that it's a little of both.)
Very interesting articles. Not suprising (to me, at least) -- everybody
has their strengths and weaknesses. I will never be, and could never
have been, any kind of sports person; I don't have the right
personality to be a good people person; I don't have the knack for
writing stories. Not everyone can do anything, or even many things.
~Ethan~
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