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Essentially taught me to type fast, I remember doing 90wpm in 6th grade....
Probably because you saw the abomination that is /2 and did to interact with my teammates, Makes sense now that I do use it .
Essentially taught me how to type well.
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Why don’t they teach these things in school?
Question for those who have worked with their fair share of recently graduated CS students:
If you were able to lecture a class while they were in school, what subject would you talk about...
Started by Randy on
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by 17 people.
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Having taught at college for....
I am still constantly amazed that the vast majority of students are not taught what.
The teacher would act as lead developer course in CS).
Course building together a big application with two releases.
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Lots of developers I know were self taught programmers including me.
I was wondering how much of the developer community learned programming by taking a course in school or by experimenting, asking questions on forums, reading online articles, and just...
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Self taught
I started by reading the user manual for the VIC 20 before even getting the machine (from user and developer point of view)
I'....
After I was sure.
Later on, I taught myself PHP and did a bunch of web games like sites.
Basic.
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It seems to me that functional programming is a great thing. It eliminates state and makes it much easier to automatically make code run in parallel.
Many programmers who were first taught imperative programming styles find it very difficult to learn ...
Started by Zifre on
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First, I find the basis of your....
So Schools stuck to that,
I was taught OOP design from the get go, its only recently ive been follows reflects the original title, " Why is functional programming not taught in schools, " Schools vendors.
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I would like to know if there's any deep difference in how programming is taught in different schools.
I don't mean "They taught me how to write a Gaussian Elimination in C++", I'm more interested in the differing styles of teaching - what did you find...
Started by luiss on
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The first method involves in the functions themselves, hopefully....
This is almost impossible to answer, since the vast majority of people were taught programming that it is taught at my university, depending on which intro course you take.
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I dunno about the US of A and the United K , but in India , schools still teach GW-BASIC. Yes, it's the one in which you could do this:
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" 20 GOTO 10
As far as my experience goes, even writing assembler is easier than this mess of ...
Started by aviraldg on
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by 12 people.
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If the teacher knows/understands it....
The teacher knows it.
Hey, it's there, it's free, why not use it to teach children .
I found-Basic on it.
Why-the-lucky-stiff-on-vimeo
GW-Basic was taught to me in 7th grade about 10 years ago.
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I am a graduate student now, and hopefully someday I will teach. my interests are C++, Python, embedded languages, and scientific computing. Meanwhile I daydream about how I would teach. I was not quite happy with my undergraduate university as ...
Started by aaa on
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Should computer languages be taught explicitly to do with how the ....
Functional programming.
I averaged 10% lecture when I taught suitable for googleification.
Training technique because it is easiest for the teacher to prepare).
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What is the most important thing you weren't taught in school?
What topics are missing from the CS/IS education?
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How to sell an idea Principles:
Often, good enough is better than perfect. Making mistakes is actually a Good Thing™ -- as long...
Started by Alexandre Brisebois on
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by 102 people.
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Luckily, I had a good mentor who taught me before I finished school more kids were taught how to analyze a problem....
We weren't taught about source control .
How to resolve a technical disagreement.
How to teach others effectively.
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I apologise in advance for this being a little more subjective than discrete - but I can't find a better way to phrase it, nor a better place to have this question answered. I also apologise this post grew to be so long.
About 12 years ago, I began to...
Started by James Burgess on
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by 19 people.
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You won't get rich.
A music teacher expressed the need and I had fun providing a solution.
The outlet for me has been Dashboard for concerts.
But, I can relate to your dilemma, being self-taught as well.
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Posts : 3476 Who taught you? ...
Posted At: 18 Jan 2012 at 14:08 5489034 We would be interested to hear how you first got into computers and who taught you, were you self-taught or has a helpful relative or grandchild stepped in and shown...
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Bowledover
Posts : 985 Who ....
Posted At: 18 Jan 2012 at 14:17 I need to use a computer at work and went on various inhouse courses over 20 years ago but my son taught me about the 'social' uses.
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