[plt-scheme] Computers considered harmful

From: Marco Morazan (morazanm at gmail.com)
Date: Wed May 6 21:36:23 EDT 2009

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:43 PM,  <ebellani at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is it possible for somebody to learn bad programming habits from
>> programming spreadsheets?
>
> Yes. It is also possible to learn good habits. It is also possible for one
> to
> learn bad habits from HTDP. It all depends on how the student interprets and
> interacts with the material. People program computers, not the inverse.
>

My apologies to the reader's of the list. Although I am very much open
to the honest debate of ideas, I see now there is little of it here.

>
> Educational facilities of today are inherently bad, for all the reason
> expressed
> in [1].
>
> [1] http://ournature.org/~novembre/illich/1970_deschooling.html

Мы понимаем товарища.


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Cheers,

Marco


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