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=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,fef3ad775ef4b0b7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!news2!news.glorb.com!peer1.news.newnet.co.uk!194.159.246.34.MISMATCH!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada for 1st year students Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:44:55 +0100 Organization: Pushface Message-ID: References: <60e0c5f0-1e17-4add-b21e-b1ef622d5233@v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <6gj2s5-0f9.ln1@newserver.thecreems.com> <543356bc-7862-45d2-9004-dfef69deab26@79g2000hsk.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1223747095 2165 62.49.19.209 (11 Oct 2008 17:44:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:44:55 +0000 (UTC) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4Z9ICPrKdZ7sXZWcxaNT1Rw+SGk= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2.50 (darwin) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8059 Date: 2008-10-11T18:44:55+01:00 List-Id: John McCormick writes: > I am VERY wary of teaching GUI programming to beginners. They put > enormous amounts of time into playing with fonts, colors, etc at the > expense of learning basic programming. This is rather like my wife's experience of teaching 10-year-old girls Lego Mindstorms -- she has to hide the wings, eyes, & other decorative objects until the last moment or nothing gets done. Even so, they turn the control program's screen background Barbie pink at the first opportnity!