[TUHS] ratfor vibe

[Clem Cole]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 4:22 PM Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 2:40 PM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
>
>> Dan - thanks.
>>
>
> Sure thing.
>
> By the way: the thing I was thinking about earlier that was so biting
> towards OOP was an earlier version of Harper's post, in which he writes,
> "Object-oriented programming is eliminated entirely from the introductory
> curriculum, because it is both anti-modular and anti-parallel by its very
> nature, and hence unsuitable for a modern CS curriculum."
> https://web.archive.org/web/20110321004746/https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/teaching-fp-to-freshmen/
> (How's _that_ for an academic glove-slap?)
>
Amen...

My disagreement with them using scripting (python) as step one is the lack
of teaching data typing early AND python's silly use space/tabs to set up
structure instead of  real {} or B/E blocks.  Automatic data conversion has
never been a good idea in my experience because like many things that
happen magically, it almost never works as I expect.

Funny we were discussing the roff family and that is why I like it over
things like Word -- way too much hidden behind the screen for my taste.
I'm a make it explicit kinda guy I guess.  I hate surprises ...

Also, it remains to be seen if teaching FP early helps - which they are
clearly making play.  Who am I to say, as one of the earliest languages I
learned APL, so FP thinking was drilled into me in my youth.

Clem
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