On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 01:12:49PM +0200, Rafael Knuth wrote:
> Hej there,
>
> @Alan @Joel:
> I didn't know that pouring corn on newbies is the purpose of a tutor
> mailing list.
The word you want is "scorn", not corn.
> I do not understand why you don't consider what I wrote not a program
> ("Hello World!" in a more elaborate form), as the user is actually
> able to a list, to write to and reads from it (in a very primitive
> manner though). Can anyone explain?
Your program doesn't do any work at all. It might as well be a blog
post, or a post-it note stuck to the side of the computer with
instructions.
Now that's fine. If you want to teach other people how to program,
telling them to write code like:
textfile = open("ToDoList.txt", "r")
textfile.write("Thing to do\n")
textfile.close()
is a perfectly legitimate thing to do. But that's not *programming*. You
haven't written a to-do list program, you have written instructions for
somebody else to save a to-do list.
--
Steven
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