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- Subject: Re: Beginner to programming. References to understand terms.
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 19:03:27 +0200
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
> Heh. "Leveling the field" might be a less accurate description than
> "winnowing the chaff."
Point taken. But these were CS majors, so no excuse ;)
> Eh. That same argument could be used to justify Javascript in that
> role. Not sure I'd recommend THAT, and largely for the same reason --
> just because they SUPPORT functional programming doesn't mean anyone
> actually writes code that way.
Well I'm a multi-paradigm kind of person, so I'm cool with that. Point
is you could do a very Scheme-y introduction in Lua (_or_ Javascript,
I'm not proud)
> For the people for whom programming is incidental to their careers,
> vocational training is probably the RIGHT choice.
Oh yes, like an intro to Python for 'data science' students, etc. But
I was definitely thinking of CS majors here.
- References:
- Beginner to programming. References to understand terms., Bill Kelsoe
- Re: Beginner to programming. References to understand terms., steve donovan
- Re: Beginner to programming. References to understand terms., Dirk Laurie
- Re: Beginner to programming. References to understand terms., Andrew Starks
- Re: Beginner to programming. References to understand terms., steve donovan
- Re: Beginner to programming. References to understand terms., Andrew Starks
- Re: Beginner to programming. References to understand terms., steve donovan
- Re: Beginner to programming. References to understand terms., Gé Weijers
- Re: Beginner to programming. References to understand terms., Coda Highland
- Re: Beginner to programming. References to understand terms., Jay Carlson
- Re: Beginner to programming. References to understand terms., Coda Highland
- Re: Beginner to programming. References to understand terms., steve donovan
- Re: Beginner to programming. References to understand terms., Coda Highland
- Re: Beginner to programming. References to understand terms., steve donovan
- Re: Beginner to programming. References to understand terms., Coda Highland