[Tutor] Re: Python information

[Dan Shafer]

Yigal Duppen wrote:

>But getting back to my original point: I suspect that once you have been
>contaminated by purely procedural programming, it takes a lot of mind bending
>to understand OO in its entirety.

Yep. I taught OO for many years. I could take non-technical managers and 
have them grokking objects and their basics in a half-day workshop. New 
programmers usually took a day or two. Procedurally trained programmers 
more like two or three sessions of 2-5 days each spread over 2-3 months. 
COBOL programmers? Never did get it. But that's another story. :-)

My experience is that most people who have trouble with objects do so 
because they try to make them much more complicated than they really are.

Dan Shafer, Chief Scribe and Tablet Keeper
PythonCard Open Source Project
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