On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, Dave Caroline wrote:
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin
at xenosoft.com> wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, Toby Thain wrote:
Some people should be doing something else. From
what I see around:
Maybe 80% of the current industry.
Why? They didn't learn and they won't learn.
80% of EVERY industry!
30 years ago, a student couldn't handle remedial college arithmetic. ?His
"counselor" ?suggested, that to handle his cognitive deficiencies, he
should switch his major to "Computer Programming"! ?I talked to the
student, and recommended another change; he is now a happy successful MBA.
The "counselor" is now president of the college. ?. . . and people wonder
why defenestration is necessary
One must keep in mind the pace of a college class. ?Would you really want
to do recursion in somebody's first day? ?OK, now scale that to a college
class - recursion belongs in the second semester.
to understand recursion, you need to understand recursion
also see K&R 2nd ed(not first ed) lookup recursion in the index
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