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From: mbk@hpsemc.HP.COM (Miles Kehoe)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: a point to ponder
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Date: 7 Jul 88 21:43:33 GMT
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Neat topic by - hm, Jack Purdam I think, in one of his 'C' books
from Que - about his CS classes now.  He says he gives a class assignment,
and 95% of the students head for the crt to get started.  He says those
students spend  5 minutes programming, and the rest of the hour
'debugging'.  As I recall, he implies the better programmers are the ones
who stay at their desk, analyse the problem for 10 minutes or so, go to
the crt for another 10 minutes, and then go home having completed the
assignmemt.  An interesting point.

Of course, it could be we old keypunch whizes are starting to feel
envy at 'the new generation' and are trying to justify the way we
did things! (-:+)

mbk