<Deepflame> Schools are great at failing at teaching programming
<Tenoch> Deepflame: yeah mine was particularly ridiculous at teaching C
<Tenoch> they had a mix of C and C++ that made me die a little at each lesson
<Deepflame> And the problem is that most people don't realize you don't teach programming by giving people a book of "How to use <x> language" :P
<Deepflame> Programming is not the language you are using
<quin> you teach programming by going over the same example in two or three languages
<Deepflame> That's merely the writing down your thoughts part :P
<quin> here's C, here's Python, here's Perl
<quin> and then the students can distinguish between "programming" and "syntax"
<Deepflame> I never worked with Perl, but throw in a functional programming language :P
<GBGames> Here's Lisp.
<quin> yes
<Tenoch> CAML
<Tenoch> :(
<quin> JavaScript
<GBGames> And by the end of Day 1, they'll be able to participate in flame wars like real programmers.
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