[plt-scheme] Computers considered harmful
> That said, I've heard of people teaching the first course using "hand-marked
> pseudocode", and that perhaps goes too far, with no feedback at all prior to
> assessment. This is a problem with mathematics as well. I find marking
> O-notation "proofs" painful, because the students go wildly wrong, and they
> don't even realize it.
i think that is an issue for learning how to do proofs in general, and
i suspect most teachers have forgotten how hard it can be to learn
such things. :-}
sincerely.