Re: "Intuitiveness" of programming languages/paradigms

2009-11-29 Thread William Billingsley
This sounds like an interesting problem around the role of university education. Traditionally / ("in olden times?"), one of the differentiators between school and university was that at university students were considered to take full responsibility for their own learning. As a studen

Re: "Intuitiveness" of programming languages/paradigms

2009-11-23 Thread William Billingsley
If the plural of "anecdote" is "empirical evidence", then I'd suggest it's not as simple as that. In Cambridge, the first language taught was ML (a functional language). Over around five years, I tutored around sixty students in Java, which was the second language taught and also a compul

Re: Programming ITS Source Code

2008-08-21 Thread William Billingsley
e brings up the following link: http://icampus.mit.edu/xTutor/ William Billingsley On 21 Aug 2008, at 18:08, Alison Hull wrote: Dear All, I am working on the design of a system to teach programming that takes student motivation into account. Rather than building a complete system, I am looking