On 2013-12-11, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:25:48 +1300, Gregory Ewing ><greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> declaimed the following: >>> On Monday, December 9, 2013 5:53:41 PM UTC+5:30, Oscar Benjamin wrote: >>>>5) Learning to program "should be painful" and we should >>>>expect the students to complain about it (someone actually >>>>said that!) but the pain makes them better programmers in the >>>>end. >> >>That's like saying that when teaching woodwork we shouldn't let >>people use hammers, we should make them use rocks to bang nails >>in, because it will make them better carpenters in the long >>run. > > NAILS???? > > Nails were verboten in my high school wood working class... > > We used dowels and glue; chisels to carve dove-tails; etc.
... You lucky BASTARD! We had to build bookcases out of banana leaves held together with our own spittle. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
