This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Python Buzz by Dmitry Dvoinikov. Original Post: Just in: no adequate programming teaching Feed Title: Things That Require Further Thinking Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ThingsThatRequireFurtherThinking Feed Description: Once your species has evolved language, and you have learned language, [...] and you have something to say, [...] it doesn't take much time, energy and effort to say it. The hard part of course is having something interesting to say. -- Geoffrey Miller Latest Python Buzz Posts Latest Python Buzz Posts by Dmitry Dvoinikov Latest Posts From Things That Require Further Thinking

To parody our current methods of teaching programming, we give beginners a grammar and a dictionary and tell them that they are now great writers. [...] As a result, few programmers write in flowing poetry; most write in halting prose.

-- R. W. Hamming, 1969