Re: on neophytes vs perfectionists (was Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful)
Re: on neophytes vs perfectionists (was Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful)
- Subject: Re: on neophytes vs perfectionists (was Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful)
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:58:03 -0800
- Thread-topic: on neophytes vs perfectionists (was Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful)
On 12/18/08 2:33 AM, "Shane Stanley" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> How much of that ease or difficulty is because of the syntax?
>
> That certainly helps, especially the readability. I think one of the big
> things about whose clauses for beginners is not writing them -- that can
> still be baffling -- but the fact that they make code much harder to follow.
> And readability is a big step to getting people to take existing code and
> play with it.
>
> But there's nothing like success to drive further learning, and the fact
> that people can put together small scripts quickly, and do useful work with
> them, as opposed to printing "Hello World", is a huge spur.
I know in several previous jobs, I was able to get secretaries writing
useful scripts without a lot of work on my part, because they could just
read samples and dope it out with only a small bit of help here and there.
Also, the look on a Senior Scientist's face when they realized the
receptionist was mad as a wet hen because she couldn't figure out where her
code was getting pooched? *Priceless*.
--
"Tracers work both ways."
US Army Ordnance.
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