[Edu-sig] Research on best language to use for teaching beginners

[kirby urner]

This list begs the question of whether English language words should take
precedence of those of another language or symbols such as used in APL, J
and so on, for important verbs.

I'm leery of such rankings anyway.  Knowledge-by-survey is not the same as
knowledge.

Kirby



On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 7:02 AM, David Handy <david at handysoftware.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, October 1, 2015 4:50pm, "Andre Roberge" <
> andre.roberge at gmail.com> said:
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> ...
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> The best keywords (combining result from the two groups) are thought to
> include: repeat, again, loop, cycle
> The worst keywords are thought to include: foreach, while, echo,
> duplicate, for .... with "for" getting the worst result of all.
> Now that you mention it, I have hazy memories from > 30 years ago, when I
> was learning BASIC, of puzzling over the meaning of the FOR keyword and
> wondering why they chose that word. So I'm not surprised to see that on the
> list of difficult keywords.
> However, the WHILE keyword in BASIC was intuitive for me. So it surprises
> me to see that on their list of bad keywords.
> David H
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