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Subject: Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 20:35:47 -0500
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On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:25:48 +1300, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> declaimed the following:

>> On Monday, December 9, 2013 5:53:41 PM UTC+5:30, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
>> 
>>>5) Learning to program "should be painful" and we should expect the
>>>students to complain about it (someone actually said that!) but the
>>>pain makes them better programmers in the end.
>
>That's like saying that when teaching woodwork we shouldn't
>let people use hammers, we should make them use rocks to
>bang nails in, because it will make them better carpenters
>in the long run.

	NAILS????

	Nails were verboten in my high school wood working class... 

	We used dowels and glue; chisels to carve dove-tails; etc.

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