Programming is usually taught by examples.
Programming is usually taught by examples.
The creative activity of programming - to be distinguished from coding - is usually taught by examples serving to exhibit certain techniques.
Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.
Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.
Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.
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