Unification of Methods and Functions

[Greg Ewing]

David MacQuigg wrote:
> I could give you an example from IC Design, but for the course I
> teach, I chose to use a similar hierarchy based on something everyone
> would understand - a taxonomy of animals.  Nothing in this example is
> something you wouldn't find in a real program to model an integrated
> circuit.

Perhaps it would be better to give these people examples
based on actual parts of an integrated circuit, then?
If they can see an immediate, realistic use for what
you're teaching, they're likely to grasp and remember
it more easily. Cats and mammals have the potential to
be just as boring and artificial-seeming as parts and
suppliers.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg