Mark Guzdial:Computing Education Research Blog:Dijkstra’s Truths about Computing Education Aren’t: The many kinds of programming

See my previous related posts which are basically Mark Guzdial again :-) :
- Computing Education Research Blog: Proposal #3 to Change CS Education to Reduce Inequity: Call a truce on academic misconduct cases for programming assignments and it is not necessary to have to struggle to learn
- Computing Education Research Blog:Task-specific programming languages: People aren’t dumb. Programming is hard.
Dijkstra’s Truths about Computing Education Aren’t The many kinds of programming: <– “Of course, there are innate differences between people, but that fact doesn’t have to limit who can program. Computers are the most flexible medium that humans have ever created. To argue that only a small percentage of people can “groove with programming” or that learning a specific programming language “mentally mutilates” is to define programming in a very narrow way. There are lots of activities that are programming” <– AMEN!