After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>> We had to do programming tasks every week, but it was up to us to choose
>> the language, and the hardware for implementation.
>
> Your professor was a smart pedagogue. Programming is syntax-depedent.
> Concepts and skills cling to one's mind for understanding of a paradigm, as
> well as improving problem-solving skills. See the foundation of one of the
> fathers of Computer Science.
>
> http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/books.html
>
> From practical exercise to 'art'. One-to-one sessions that we had as
> undergraduates involve nothing but classic lateral thinking riddles. It was
> strange. But, in the long term, these seem more valuable than memorisation
> of keywords and API's.
>
> There's a slogan that goes with the game Othello: a minute to learn, a
> lifetime to master.
No, according to stellar software developers such as Hadron, all you
need is a good IDE. Does he work at Microsoft, perchance? No, there
they at least write large applications that could benefit from the
application of forethought and design.
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"Linux is a cancer!" -- Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft
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