On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 21:20:05 +0100, <pete.bee....@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, April 10, 2014 3:40:22 PM UTC-7, Rhodri James wrote:
It's called irony, and unfortunately Mark is reacting to an
all-to-common
situation that GoogleGroups foists on unsuspecting posters like
yourself.
People who say "I can't be bothered to correct this" while posting a
wise a$$ correction are just trolling, probably not funny in real life
either. I think if you're going to wise off than be witty about it,
otherwise just a terse reference to a link.
99% of the time, Mark is the one to make a brief comment with the link I
gave you. And often gets roundly condemned for daring to suggest that GG
is not a shining beacon of perfection, for clearly the rest of us are
complaining out of jealousy. See my previous comments about straws and
camels' backs. Also irony.
At any rate, my original point stands. You're not teaching on planet
Vulcan. Better to teach things in an odd order if that helps motivates
your students. It's not like people in real life carefully examine all
available documentation before learning some piece of tech. Usually they
shrug and say "what's the worst that could happen", dive in, and roll
with the consequences%10.
Since "the worst that could happen" with some of the kit I've worked on is
that I kill people, I have to disagree. Some flexibility is good, but if
you want to understand how something works you do need to go through it in
a logical order. Otherwise you can end up knowing lots of bits but having
no understanding of how they interact or hang together. That's fine if
you want to learn how to write programs, but it's terrible if you want to
become a programmer.
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