Re: Teaching programming

Steve Schacht (shot@frontier.net)
Tue, 23 Jul 1996 14:32:54 EDT

At 10:21 PM 7/19/96, William C. Mead wrote:
>I think C++ is a potential quagmire for all but advanced students.
>Although "object orientation" is all the rage, I'm not at all
>convinced of its appropriateness at early stages of teaching
>and learning to program. (I'm fairly sure this opinion will
>arouse C++ partisans-- sorry!). I think there are other

C++ is but one implementation of OOP. I think that OOP would be quite
appropriate as an intro to programming. In fact, for many it's a far more
natural and intuitive way to think than procedural languages require. The
key is to have the proper tool (language) for learning and practicing OO
concepts so that one doesn't get bogged down in syntactical details.
That's why I'm so big on visual programming.

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