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I wrote:
>For better or for worse, most incoming CS freshmen already know how to program.

In article <1381@batserver.cs.uq.oz>, paul@batserver.cs.uq.oz (Paul Bailes) writes:
> Just what trivial function do describe as ``to program''? If you take it to
> mean something along the lines of ``tell a computer to do what you want''
> (subject to any meaningful performance/correctness constraints), then after
> 3-4 years of university people still can't!

I was merely commenting that almost everyone coming into a college-level intro 
CS class has had some experience writing code.  My point is that new students 
are not coming into CS as a tabula rasa, not that they had achieved some
specific competence level, particularly one so high that you assert most
grads can't meet.
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