From: David Starner <starner@okstate.edu>
Subject: Re: Resources for teaching a child Ada ?
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 00:45:57 GMT
Date: 2002-12-25T00:45:57+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9rvh0vkr4sj6i0a03qtktudnftegnk7u69@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: S17O9.3124$BW1.109729@newsfep1-gui.server.ntli.net
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 00:36:29 +0000, "chris.danx"
<spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>The tutors at Uni knew that people liked graphics, gui stuff and
>exploited it to make it fun. People hated the text io stuff but the
>graphics stuff they did held their interest. We had a number of
>problems to solve which people liked.
I think that's person specific. I hate doing I/O in all forms; I wish
all programs were filters, taking input in and dumping output out (as
a programmer, of course - interactive programs are nice for using.)
Most of my early programming was writing exploratory math programs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-25 0:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-24 23:56 Resources for teaching a child Ada ? faust
2002-12-24 23:01 ` Michal Nowak
2002-12-24 23:48 ` David Wright
2002-12-25 14:55 ` Michal Nowak
2002-12-25 0:36 ` chris.danx
2002-12-25 0:45 ` David Starner [this message]
2002-12-25 21:12 ` faust
2002-12-26 20:53 ` Stefan Skoglund
2003-01-02 14:11 ` Wes Groleau
2003-01-02 17:44 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-01-02 18:37 ` Wes Groleau
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