Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million students

Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by loxs on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @09:47AM (#22117930)

I'm not even talking about big O or algorithms & data structures. I'm talking about the basic concepts of function, iteration, abstraction, indirection etc.

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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by vorpalhex on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:53AM (#22118556)

Yeah those are definitely things that new programmers need to learn, but they usually need to learn them by doing things the hard way a few times first.

"yeah, that's a lot of copy and pasting isn't it? Want a neat trick to save yourself some effort?"

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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by loxs on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @11:40AM (#22119048)

Have you tried that yourself on a variety of people? (I have)

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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by vorpalhex on Thursday January 23, 2020 @03:40PM (#22131724)

I have as well, I'm happy to report out of the last 5 non-programmers or very-new programmers I've trained, 3 are senior engineers and 2 are on-level engineers and I'd gladly work with any of them.

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