Teaching python to non-programmers

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> It is, in a way, the corporate equivalent of "RTFM", only enshrined as
> normal practice rather than seen as a deliberate put-down of somebody who
> hasn't done their homework. And because it's normal practice, even those
> who know better end up going along with the flow, because its easier than
> explaining to their supervisor why their emails are so confusing. And
> thus the world is made a slightly darker place.

It's even worse. If someone comes to you saying "So what's this
Heartbleed thing?", RTFM would be providing a link to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed but the default corporate
practice is linking to
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heartbleed&action=history
and expecting the someone to read it all. But yes.

ChrisA