[comp.sys.mac.programmer] Teaching programming

Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English) (03/12/91)

Andrew C. Esh writes in a message to All

ACE> My point is that I think it is important for your students to 
ACE> learn self reliance, by first learning to work with a raw system 
ACE> that has few limitations rather than come to depend on a limited 
ACE> system which they will eventually outgrow.

In my own less-than-humble-opinion, you have that bass-ackward: the student
needs hand-holding until she learns confidence. THEN she can go to the larger
system. Properly designed instruction doesn't include teaching someone to swim
by throwing them into the ocean...


Lawson
 

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