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Rather unlikely to happen because: http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf Quoting

by maurycy 19y ago

Rather unlikely to happen because: http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf Quoting the abstract: Learning to program is notoriously difficult. A substantial minority of students fails in every introductory programming course in every UK university. Despite heroic academic effort, the proportion has increased rather than decreased over the years. Despite a great deal of research into teaching methods and student responses, we have no idea of the cause. It has long been suspected that some people have a natural aptitude for programming, but until now there has been no psychological test which could detect it. Programming ability is not known to be correlated with age, with sex, or with educational attainment; nor has it been found to be correlated with any of the aptitudes measured in conventional 'intelligence' or 'problem-solving-ability' tests. We have found a test for programming aptitude, of which we give details. We can predict success or failure even before students have had any contact with any programming language with very high accuracy, and by testing with the same instrument after a few weeks of exposure, with extreme accuracy. We present experimental evidence to support our claim. We point out that programming teaching is useless for those who are bound to fail and pointless for those who are certain to succeed.

maurycy 19y ago
There's also one small funny bit about it I forgot to include in the previous post. Currently my girlfriend studies philosopy. Don't know how in other countries, but in Poland, philosophy undergrands have to master the logic. Nothing fancy, basically the easiest elementary logic. And you know what? According to her, a lot of people have problems with it. I've had very similar experiences before with friends studying liberal arts and science that were required to learn logic.

by maurycy 19y ago

maurycy 19y ago

There's also one small funny bit about it I forgot to include in the previous post. Currently my girlfriend studies philosopy. Don't know how in other countries, but in Poland, philosophy undergrands have to master the logic. Nothing fancy, basically the easiest elementary logic. And you know what? According to her, a lot of people have problems with it. I've had very similar experiences before with friends studying liberal arts and science that were required to learn logic.