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From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: American Programmer
Message-ID: <37258UH2@PSUVM>
Date: 25 Mar 88 18:30:08 GMT
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In article <5367@utah-cs.UUCP>, shebs%defun.utah.edu.uucp@utah-cs.UUCP (Stanley T. Shebs) says:
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>In article <36845UH2@PSUVM> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
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>>[...]  Imagine this freshman programming
>>course---start with data flow diagrams, strucutre charts, and walk-throughs---
>>add egoless programming---teach symbolic debuggers and syntax directed editors
>>from day one.
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>Sounds good to me...  The main objection that comes to mind is the increased
>volume of material.

At first, it sounds like *more* material, but look what it might mean (if
it worked):  By spending two weeks up front, teaching them to use a symbolic
debugger, they'd save 5 hours per week for the rest of the term because
they would be faster debuggers, for a net gain of about 60 hours.

During this 60 hours, they can learn about lots of other keen stuff 8-)