[Novalug] Weird and not normal (was g4 interfaces)

[Beartooth]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Clif Flynt wrote:

> Lots of stuff falls into the 'not right' category if you've 
> started with something else first.
>
> Potatoes, rice and poi are all white starches with little flavor.
>
> Depending on where you grew up, one of these will be hard for an
> adult to swallow.
 	[snipperoo]
>  So nobody should learn a first programming language.  They 
> should start with the third, when it's easier.

 	Long ago and far away, it fell to me and two Teaching 
Assistants to give two sections of a ten-hour-per-week intensive 
German course -- so intensive that we routinely did three 
semesters' work in one, not just two.

 	The TAs decided it would wear them out least to teach a 
full week, then a week off, etc. So I taught the first week of 
one section, the second week of the other, etc.; I figured that 
way I'd have personal contact with all the students.

 	It worked; but from the second week on, each class felt 
that it had a real teacher and a substitute; and I was one in the 
first, and the other in the other.

 	People are more like deer than they think : creatures of 
habit.

-- 
Beartooth Bookworm, Cantankerous Curmudgeon
I have never owned a television. Nor wanted to.