Comment object oriented learning (Score 1) 209
Don't teach them to program at all--teach them to solve problems. After you have a sensible solution strategy, expressing it in the syntax of a given programming language is trivial (boring) work.
Amen to that. What has repeatedly disgusted me about education in the US is the dependence on procedural modes of teaching. When I began learning HTML in 1996 I almost went out of my mind at the sheer amount of useless 'web secrets' sites that merely regurgitated secondhand 'do this...' information. I was fortunate enough to stumble upon zeldman.com, but years of procedural education prevented me from making the best use of his wonderful information.
As redundant as it sounds, most of us need to focus on learning how to learn. Are there any books on object oriented thinking?
A Student of/for Life,
Ethan
Amen to that. What has repeatedly disgusted me about education in the US is the dependence on procedural modes of teaching. When I began learning HTML in 1996 I almost went out of my mind at the sheer amount of useless 'web secrets' sites that merely regurgitated secondhand 'do this...' information. I was fortunate enough to stumble upon zeldman.com, but years of procedural education prevented me from making the best use of his wonderful information.
As redundant as it sounds, most of us need to focus on learning how to learn. Are there any books on object oriented thinking?
A Student of/for Life,
Ethan
