On Monday, December 9, 2013 5:53:41 PM UTC+5:30, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > 5) Learning to program "should be painful" and we should expect the > students to complain about it (someone actually said that!) but the > pain makes them better programmers in the end.
Yeah this will get some people's back up -- Atrocious! Preposterous! etc Change the word 'pain' to 'taxing' 'hard' 'challenge' etc and there is much truth in it. Here is Joel Spolsky on why Java is a poor language for this reason: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
