From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10f6aa,e1e578817780dac2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f6aa,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: patrick@broadvision.com (Patrick Horgan) Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/09/01 Message-ID: <50ausr$806@ns.broadvision.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 178562165 references: organization: The quite unorganized Patrick reply-to: patrick@broadvision.com newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada,comp.os.msdos.programmer Date: 1996-09-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , jdege@jdege.visi.com (Jeffrey C. Dege) writes: > > Has _anyone_ had an instructer who brought any excitement to this stuff, > or is it inherently impossible to teach without becoming dull and tedious? I think I've done a pretty good job of it with pictures and arrows and yelling, and drawing faces on things and jokes. If you're interesting and you keep a close lookout for glazed eyes and fix it before its a problem you can teach things pretty well. I suspect that I can do a good job of it because I like it. I get excited about cool algorithms and I like to show other people how cool they are. That's not to say that I uniformly teach well to all though. One of the hardest things about teaching (and the reason I like tutoring better) is that everyone brings something different to the classroom and nothing you can do will be right for everyone...sigh... -- Patrick J. Horgan patrick@broadvision.com Have horse will ride. Opinions mine, not my employer's except by most bizarre coincidence.