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On 7/19/2012 10:07 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> writes:
>> I am not sure hours of instruction are the important thing for
>> programming language learning. How much time are the students able and
>> willing to spend outside class?
>
>    No time. The classes are visited by employees, pupils, and
>    students, who need or want to use the rest of their time
>    for their job/life, school, or university. When I tried to
>    give homework, it was never done.

     That's too bad.  Programming is not just an abstract body of
knowledge, a list of facts and theorems.  Programming is also a
craft requiring skills, skills that are acquired (and maintained)
by practice.  No practice -> no programmer.

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid