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Tricky programming concepts aren't tricky - what teachers get wrong(evincarofautumn.blogspot.com)

submitted by dpetersondpeterson(4397) 8 months, 2 days ago

Jon shares with us his feelings on the use of subversive language such as "this next bit is tricky" in teaching, especially when teaching programming to students. While designed to make students pay attention, it tends to make most feel like what's coming next is hard. Programming IS hard, but it's hard work, not hard to understand. Jon goes on to point out many places in which programming terms have very literal meaning, yet confuse many students and some professionals alike. He attempts to dispel the idea of tricky programming concepts and shed some light on the subject.

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posted by vijaystvijayst(1311) 8 months, 1 day ago 0

A very interesting post to read. But, there are some programming techniques that are really tricky. I completed all of my code (Silverlight XAML) within 16 hours, and could not fix a trivial UI bug for the next 24 hours!

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