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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a1cabe8166ddcbb8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-24 16:45:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!wn11feed!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Starner Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Resources for teaching a child Ada ? Message-ID: <9rvh0vkr4sj6i0a03qtktudnftegnk7u69@4ax.com> References: <1fsh0vss3dblbs9hm21vendb9arhvvrk90@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.92/32.572 trialware MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 00:45:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.73.28.123 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1040777157 12.73.28.123 (Wed, 25 Dec 2002 00:45:57 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 00:45:57 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32293 Date: 2002-12-25T00:45:57+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 00:36:29 +0000, "chris.danx" 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.