On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Mario Figueiredo <mar...@gmail.com> wrote: > "I want to become a programmer so I can make games" is, on the vast > majority of cases, the quote of someone who will never become a > programmer. Why should teachers reward that kind of thought?
How about "I want to become a programmer so my brother, 2.5 years older than me, won't be better than me any more"? Should that kind of thinking be rewarded? Because that's how I got started. My brother was being taught the basics of programming, I was jealous (being the second child will tend to produce that), and so at six years old, I started learning to code. And then a few years later, I wanted to learn C because my brother didn't know it (we'd both learned BASIC), and since I didn't have a C compiler, I learned 8086 Assembly Language instead, using DEBUG.EXE. Largely out of jealousy. I hope I've gained a little maturity since then... ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
