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rimantas on Nov 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Programming Languages Are Hard To Teach [video...

Because programming is hard to teach. Because abstract thinking is hard to teach.

quanticle on Nov 12, 2012 [–]

Great cop out answer. "Teaching programming is hard; let's go shopping." Why is it hard? What rough edges can we sand down so that the only difficulties are essential ones, not incidental ones?

Stepping back even farther, how do we even know that programming is hard to teach?

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