It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. -Alan Perlis

 

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.


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It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?

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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

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Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

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The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

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