- Original Message -
From: "R Bartlett"
To: "S.A.Fincher"
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: "Intuitiveness" of programming languages/paradigms
You may be interested to see some of the portfolios generated by
"chalk face" academics teaching introductory programmin
Hi All
I tried to reply before but I wasn't a member of the list so
apparently it didn't get through. Thanks to Chris Douce for adding
me, so this reply should work.
On 28/11/2009, at 7:43 AM, Raymond Lister wrote:
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
Anthony Robins
http://www.
There are some good papers there, thanks for sharing the link.
A few years ago I presented a paper at PPIG on some studies we had done on C#:
http://www.ppig.org/papers/13th-clarke.pdf. Since then I and my colleagues have
done some similar work looking at API usability. For example:
http://www.
Of course I realise there has been a trend in recent years to cram in as
larger numbers of young students into university for long courses, and this
presents problems. Unfortuantely, the solution in many CS departments
appears to have been an intense fear of student failure. So everything is
gear
I don't mean any rhetoric by this, but it sounds like an interesting
problem.
:-) Yes it is indeed. And I will put my hand up and own up to issuing
rhetoric in an academic mailing list! Also, I guess I need to admit that I
have a heated view of the matter of the education system, and that I s
>Well this discussion all boils down to the role of education. THere are two
>attitudes
You might only know of two, there
>1) We'll take your money, but really you shouldn't be on this course - we
>would like people who can already program so that we don't have to teach
>anything.
>or
If you k
>>>The people who don't learn are not motivated and not enthusiastic
>
>That is an incredibly complacent attitude, pedagogically. I'm not suprised
>to hear it, I'm afraid.
*sigh* You aren't listening are you?
L.
