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Re: lectures about "programming methodology"

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On 5/6/2013 7:23 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>> But I have watched only the first lectures so far.
>
>    I just watched another lecture and noticed the following:

Keep in mind that this course is probably for people who have never 
heard of a programming language before. Excessive pedantry may serve to 
confuse rather than elucidate, as I have found when TA'ing 
introductory-level computer science courses.

>    He said that a variable had a name. This is not always true
>    in Java (he referred to Java, since he is exclusively using
>    Java). In Java there also are anonymous variables, like the
>    variables of an array.

In general programming language concepts, a "variable" is generally a 
user-declared construct with a name, so "anonymous variables" are 
usually a contradiction in terminology. I did go back to the JLS and 
look it up; what it calls "variables" are what C would call "lvalues" or 
are more generally called memory locations.

>    I am actually watching this to learn English pronunciation
>    of programming terms (otherwise, I just would read a text),
>    and what I /did/ like was that for the word »char« he gave
>    the pronunciations of /kA&/ and /kæ&/ (where A is the open
>    back unrounded vowel and & is the schwar), which I also use
>    (/kA&/). Bjarne Stroustrup says it was /tSA&/ (where tS is
>    the voiceless palato-alveolar affricate), well, maybe that
>    is valid for C++ programmers ...

There is no universal agreed-upon pronunciation of "char." The common 
pronunciations are "kair" (rhymes with air, like the beginning of 
character) and "char" (like the beginning of charcoal).


-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth

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