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Judy Perry
jperryl at ecs.fullerton.edu
Wed Jul 7 23:53:46 EDT 2004
Hi Marty,
We really should get together and compare notes!
(But after I shake this cold I've had for going on three weeks now which
is precluding me from seriously looking at the excellent arrays
suggestions offered by Richard and the others...).
Yes, I use globals for two main reasons:
(1) I sorta, kinda understand how to use them
(2) I aim the class for non-programmers.
Still, I intend to use my summer off to explore custom properties and
arrays and the like! (You know, make the class more geek-friendly for the
many geeks taking it to get their easy "A" -- NOT!)
Judy
--who's feeling much better after a bit of vicodin & wine...
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Marty Billingsley wrote:
> The global variable is a pretty standard programming concept. I'd think
> that you *would* want to use them in a beginning programming class. Of
> course, if the students already understand global vs local variables from
> other languages (or previous assignments in Rev), then introduce custom
> properties.
>
> I use global vars with my students for pretty much the same thing as
> Judy does. It's a beginning-beginning programming class, for 8th graders.
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