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Wow. Not quite 80, but still an order of magnitude more than I would have expected. Interesting they learn Swing before loops. For me, the first thing I lear
by kenjackson 15y ago
Wow. Not quite 80, but still an order of magnitude more than I would have expected. Interesting they learn Swing before loops. For me, the first thing I learned was printing, then goto, then for-loop. Maybe just a function of language you learn with.
- wyclif 15y agoYep, me too. Of course, that was in BASIC around 1983.
- teach 15y agoYeah, it's 70, not 80. Not sure what I was thinking there, and now it's too late to edit my original comment. Anyway, the "Swing" assignments are there in the sequence for four reasons: 1) To break up the monotony a little bit. 2) To give them more practice copying details accurately. 3) To make them say, "That was kind of cool." 4) To explain why we're not doing "real" programs (a.k.a. GUI) yet. "It takes that much code just to display a blank window on the screen? Guess I can live with the command prompt a while longer."