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...and that some attention
should be paid to the virtue of the inclusion of the GO TO statement in
any reasonable language. Furthermore they should be told that no one is
ever going to read their code,
favored by a friend might facilitate learning too, even if that language
is not considered kosher by the computer "science" authorities.
to do. We old codgers never took programming courses, and still we
learned. I got a copy of McCracken and a key punch and went to work. It
didn't take long to get that first thrill, I'll tell you. Why should
others be deprived of it by having unnecessary obstacles placed before
them because they are so unfortunate as to have to learn structured
programming and to spend time writing grammatically correct documentation
for the eyes of a teacher?
The point here is this: computer programming is not necessarily something
that has to be taught. Like other language, with a facility for
communication (access to other speakers of the language or to a computer)
the student will naturally learn by himself. Later on, as we do in English
composition classes, we can teach him the refinements which are
undisputably valuable. As has been pointed out several times, learning yet
another language at this point is usually very easy.
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