*blink* That's neat.

[Martijn Faassen]

Arthur Siegel <ajs at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> Martijn Faassen wrote:
>>I was  imagining some controlled circumstances where there > aren't any
>> helpers around when the newbies get down to the actual business of
>> programming.

> Why  the insistence on the fiction that the Alice studies were
> conducted in the context of learning programming?

I didn't think we were implying this. We were just talking about actual
experiments that *could* be conducted to learn more about it.

That's not to say that the Alice studies don't have something to say about
language usability at all. The web page Fredrik pointed out earlier in this
thread is useful, for instance, and by the Alice folks.

Regards,

Martijn
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