SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Fri Aug 17 13:46:56 2001

> On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
>
> > I do think it's less likely for someone to pick up bad programming
> > habits if they start with Pascal, but that's not an absolute, just a
> > probability thing.
>
> Bad programming habits are either LEARNED or NOT CORRECTED early enough!

Semantics? Around here, "picked up" would include LEARNing, among other
things...

> My high school computer science teacher was a great TEACHER.

I envy people who had the benefit of teachers whose skills were
farther advanced than those of the students. No one could ever
answer the questions I asked, so I realized I'd have to teach myself.

> TEACHERS make all the difference! So it is imperative that you go out and
> find STUDENTS to TEACH!

I find myself in a bad situation everytime someone wants me to
"show them"; I show them precisely as I learned, and they just
give me deer-in-the-headlight look. As I said above, no one taught
me, so I'm clueless as to how to teach others.

Regards,
-dq
Received on Fri Aug 17 2001 - 13:46:56 BST