In <hdj4aj$7k...@news.eternal-september.org>, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
> But in reality the intellectual challenge of something in the > traditional "basic" category can be greater than for something > conventionally regarded as "advanced". And consequently is much harder to teach. I have nothing but admiration for primary school children and their teachers, because children can *actually learn to read*. Once you can read, future learning objectives become much easier to achieve. Same with programming - once you've grokked the core ideas, the rest is more or less window dressing in comparison. The gap between nought and one is much greater than the gap between one and a thousand. <snip> > It's like > the difference between driving a car and designing one. You don't > need an engineering degree to drive a car. :-) Right. Nowadays, you need a degree in electronics instead. -- Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk> Email: -http://www. +rjh@ "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999 Sig line vacant - apply within -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
