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Same thing here (but with Ocaml). You come into this intro course as someone who can already program and it feels like such a weird take that they deliberately

by wink 4y ago

Same thing here (but with Ocaml). You come into this intro course as someone who can already program and it feels like such a weird take that they deliberately steer you away from playing around and building something cool. IO being important is a hill I'm willing to die on, at least for certain kinds of learners.

mark_undoio 4y ago
Steering me away from bad habits or towards more computer science did make sense - but, yes, actively discouraging me from building things I found cool didn't help my motivation. It didn't deter everybody, though - my friend went full speed ahead and implemented a graphical MacOS application using SML that forwarded e-mails over SMS so he could read them on his phone. I was amazed to discover that was possible!