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Article #262Re: um, maybe this is a silly question
From: Brian Harvey
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 18:32
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 18:32
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brent@ssd.csd.harris.com (Brent Benson) writes: > [...] On the other hand, I think that learning (and >teaching) the difference is not that hard and is worth whatever effort >it does take. This knowledge fosters a more thorough understanding of >interpreters, compilers, machines, etc. Things that are very >important for a programmer to understand. I've said this before, but... This isn't comp.edu; it's comp.lang.logo, and I think we're talking here about the education of KIDS, not of professional programmers. So "things that are very important for a programmer to understand" are entirely beside the point in talking about how KIDS might learn to program. They can learn all that technical stuff in college, if they choose to study CS.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU!bh From: bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey) Newsgroups: comp.lang.logo Subject: Re: um, maybe this is a silly question Date: 14 Oct 1992 18:32:08 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 14 Distribution: usa Message-ID: <1bhp38INN2qv@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1992Oct13.144544.18182@sctc.com> <92Oct14.032327.23449@acs.ucalgary.ca> <BRENT.92Oct14134651@amber.ssd.csd.harris.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: anarres.cs.berkeley.edu