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At Georgia Tech up until 2000 or so. In the class it was often referred to as psudocode, but unlike psudocode in examples in random books/specs, it had a real
by gte910h 15y ago
At Georgia Tech up until 2000 or so.
In the class it was often referred to as psudocode, but unlike psudocode in examples in random books/specs, it had a real syntax and you had to put everything you would in a real language or you'd get points off.
It was a great way to learn programming (and teach it too).
*(To disambiguate for the left cost people, GT isn't like ITT, it's of quality closer to Caltech, but much cheaper. Best salary for the tuition school in the nation apparently today)
- mjs 15y agoAs in, you didn't get to execute code on a computer at all?? That seems kinda odd--I think a large part of the pleasure of programming, for most people, is seeing your code actually do something. I think Logo was captivating because made this aspect especially prominent.
- gte910h 15y agoYup. The point was to make people not randomly throw guesses at the compiler like the monkies flinging poo experience many people have, but instead you had to learn how it worked, and think the right way to write the right thing.