SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing

From: Bryan Pope <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
Date: Fri Aug 17 13:48:39 2001

>
> Bad programming habits are either LEARNED or NOT CORRECTED early enough!
> My high school computer science teacher was a great TEACHER. He
> recognized early on that I had the makings of a good programmer and
> steered me into good programming habits. He was also a psychologist in a
> way: he knew that I, being a typical hacker type, felt I knew it all and
> would be resistant to programming in a structured approach. So he
> introduced it gradually. Over time he forced me into a structured
> programming model in AppleSoft BASIC. I didn't quite understand at the
> time why we had to document all our variables in REM statements at the top
> of the program, but in time it all made sense. Eventually he steered me
> into Pascal to cement the foundations he had taught us in BASIC.
>
> TEACHERS make all the difference! So it is imperative that you go out and
> find STUDENTS to TEACH!
>

I agree.. I first learned C in high school computer science on the famed
ICON computers. But what made the difference was the teacher - she really
knew her stuff!

Bryan
Received on Fri Aug 17 2001 - 13:48:39 BST