On 01/21/2015 05:36 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > 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.
There is a difference between /your/ motivation to learn something, and teachers /pandering/ to such motivations. There's nothing wrong with "I want to make games" as a personal driving factor, but the educational system should still teach decent programming, not whatever piece of garbage will produce quick results at the expense of long-term productivity. -- ~Ethan~
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