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Re:Principles for Programming Languages for Learners by mikegerwitz on Monday August 29, 2016 @08:46AM (#12381461)
That is the job of the teacher.

My argument is that time can be better spent teaching general skills than teaching students how to be locked into a single proprietary program and try to force certain topics into its domain so that they can use the tool familiar with them (Excel) to solve the problem.

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Re:Principles for Programming Languages for Learners by cjs_2 on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @10:16AM (#12398444)
It should be the job of the environment. While i agree about learning general skills, Let's face it that Unix commands just aren't discoverable outside of the curated list by a teacher or other resource.
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