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Re: Counting SLOC in Emacs
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Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
Re: Counting SLOC in Emacs |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Nov 2014 12:49:33 +0100 |
On 2014-11-29, at 10:46, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> () Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
> () Fri, 28 Nov 2014 17:00:42 +0100
>
> I'm planning to run a code reading seminar for some
> ambitious students at my faculty. I'm wondering whether
> it could be a good idea to study this;).
>
> (In fact, not really - at least not in the beginning -
> let them learn some more typical stuff before exposing
> young minds to Emacs Lisp with its peculiarities, like
> `interactive'. We'll start with Python and JS, though
> some Common Lisp is also planned.)
>
> That's like "teaching" a child to walk one leg, the first
> week, the other, the second, and together, only afterwards.
>
> Ugh; Not Recommended.
>
> Everything is peculiar in some respect. If you choose those
> of Emacs Lisp, your students may grind their teeth but they
> will eventually learn some self-respect (and maybe some love
> for parentheses :-D).
I'm not sure if I get you.
What I meant was: in this Elisp code, you have some really atypical
things (from general programming point if view), like the tight coupling
between the language and buffer (as a data structure). Given that my
students are beginners, some of them only exposed to really basics of
programming, I don't want them to deal with too many new concepts at
once. I view it rather as teaching to walk the first few weeks, and
only then teaching to run;-).
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
- Counting SLOC in Emacs, Marcin Borkowski, 2014/11/28
- Re: Counting SLOC in Emacs, Marcin Borkowski, 2014/11/28
- Re: Counting SLOC in Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/28
- Re: Counting SLOC in Emacs, Marcin Borkowski, 2014/11/28
- Re: Counting SLOC in Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/28
- Re: Counting SLOC in Emacs, Marcin Borkowski, 2014/11/28
- Re: Counting SLOC in Emacs, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2014/11/29
- Re: Counting SLOC in Emacs,
Marcin Borkowski <=
- Re: Counting SLOC in Emacs, Grant Rettke, 2014/11/29
Re: Counting SLOC in Emacs, Phillip Lord, 2014/11/28