> Event-driven programming is a narrow, over-emphasized slice of the
> software experience,
No, this is going too far. Event-driven, asynchronous programming is not
limited to GUIs: it is instead a powerful, if a little invasive ;-) ,
concurrency model. Anyone who "got" Twisted ( http://twistedmat
Jeffrey Elkner wrote:
>On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 01:59 -0700, Toby Donaldson wrote:
>
>
>>When I taught VB (Visual BASIC), however, the GUIs were great, and
>>students almost universally said the course was more interesting and
>>enjoyable because of them. In part, they liked the fact that their
>>p
Arthur wrote:
> The author communicates respect for his audience. He says things once.
> Even hard things. It doesn't mean he expects me to get it on reading it
> once, but we understand each other I think - there is nothing stopping me
> from reading it five or six times if I need to. Him repea
Hello Jeffrey,
Friday, June 3, 2005, 7:08:29 AM, you wrote:
JE> I "taught" VB for a year, and was amazed to find out that I made it
JE> through the entire year without either myself or my students (naturally)
JE> learning much of anything about programming. To be fair, that is not
JE> the fault
> Behalf Of Radenski, Atanas
> > Behalf Of Bob Noonan
>
> GUI programming is relatively complex. To understand it, one needs to
> understand event handling. I have hard time explaining event handling to
> beginners and see that beginners have hard time understanding it. While
> GUI programming
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 01:59 -0700, Toby Donaldson wrote:
> When I taught VB (Visual BASIC), however, the GUIs were great, and
> students almost universally said the course was more interesting and
> enjoyable because of them. In part, they liked the fact that their
> programs looked like real progr
I thought I might add a few comments since we at Centre College have
been teaching Python in CS I for a long time. We use Java in CS II but
I often let students use Python in subsequent courses for assignments in
everything from algorithms to operating systems to AI. I have a
research project g
> The problem is that GUI programming is given significant coverage in
> most mainstream introductory CS textbooks. Open an arbitrary Java-based
> textbook and you are likely to face GUIs from almost the beginning.
> Sample programs and exercises often come with GUI shells that obscure
> their
