[plt-scheme] Re: I/O therefore no local

On Mar 2, 5:53 pm, "David G. Kay" <dgk... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:31 PM, wooks <woo... at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > The imperative guy is convinced  that all will suddenly become clear
> > to those who have hitherto been having difficulty.
>
>  In a way, this is true.  It's pretty easy to follow
> imperative code at the statement level.  "This
> puts 17 into the box called X.  This checks
> whether X is zero; it's not, so we go on. ..."
>
> Of course the point is that statement-level code
> tracing gets you nowhwere in terms of big-picture
> understanding or software design.
>
> But the students having difficulty may very well
> feel that they're understanding more.
>

So far 2 students have commented.

"You have to write more and when you forget even a single comma
nothing works."