On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Phillip Lord <phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk>wrote:
> > > Guess you have programmed before. Besides which, if I am teaching any > significant number of students, I will get the sys admins to do the > installation; otherwise, you the first two weeks, you spend running > around fixing peoples environment. > > This kind of nonsense is soul-destroying for new programmers; it's > depressing and saps their desire to learn. Ah, ok. Understood. Point taken. > Old programmers know the > tricks to get through this quickly (students never believe me when I > tell them that they will still be writing hello world in 10 years time); > and besides, most old programmers sold their souls years ago. > > All aside from the confusion that of "to start Clojure, type lein". Does > that make any sense? > > Phil To me, this begins to look more like a "user interface" issue than strictly a programming issue. The folks who do interface design have a technique - "pretend it's magic". What would the solution look like if it was "magic" ( setting all programming considerations aside for the moment) ? The student installs something ... opens something ... and something just works. How would you flesh that out? Aria Media Sagl Via Rompada 40 6987 Caslano Switzerland +41 (0)91 600 9601 +41 (0)76 303 4477 cell skype: ariamedia -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
