Another Doc Thought

[Judy Perry]

A fair amount of current literature on learning programming indicates that
novice programmers do indeed benefit tremendously from having access to
fully-operational code snippets.

They are the coding equivalents of physical manipulatives that fill ed lit
on learning in general.

So, if we're freaks, there are an awful lot of us.

Judy

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Dan Shafer wrote:
> On Jul 25, 2005, at 11:47 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
> > But if we could teach the art of dissection, the people could learn
> > from existing code without need as much explanation.
> >
> > Am I dreaming?
> >
> > I learned so much dissecting HyperCard and SuperCard examples,
> >
> I don't think you're a freak. But I think: (a) probably not many
> people learn this way, at least in the early going; and (b) this is a
> difficult skill to teach, perhaps more difficult than programming.