Re: XP is great

In article <qdS8e.37529$vt1.17866@edtnps90>, Ted_Espamless@xxxxxxxxx
says...
> keith wrote:
> > Well, I was teaching (indeed most of what I taught was intro to
> > programming) a decade-and-a-half before laptops and projectors were
> > available. ;-)
>
> When was that? I've had a laptop since 1973. Of course you wouldn't
> have liked that one as it ran APL.

A laptop and a projector, since '73? You're smokin' something. I was
teaching in the late '70s captive, and in a local college from '82-'85.
I have nothing against APL. It's a great language for engineers. It's
not a GP language though.

> > I can see how this would work and I'd try it if I were in that position
> > again. As it was, I let them try on their own in a "lab" setting. I'd
> > then walk around and observe/help.
>
> We did both. We had lecture and lab so the students got plenty of
> oportunity to work on their own.
>
> BTW, the presentation software was written in APL. :-)

Sure, when all you have is a nail... ;-)

> > Sure. If it's yours, xenocryptophobia quickly sets in.
>
> Precisely. When I posted solutions to assignments, I always had across
> the top in bold red print, "Here is _A_ solution to assignment #__".

....made grading a PITA too.

--
Keith
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