Teaching Programming

How should we be teaching programming? Here is an account of a good impression a student had when he encountered a lecture where they would actually improve something about their programming: Hal put the archetypical Lisp program on the blackboard: (define (fact x) (if (zero? x) 1 (* x (fact (-

How should we teach programming? Let us look at an example of a very satisfied student: There were several great lectures in 6.001, but that first one was the most memorable because it showed me that real computer hackers weren't writing accounts receivable and inventory reporting programs