I'm not sure whether seedwork is not just another buzzword.

I've seen too many cases of "magical programming"^* so that I'm not sure whether I like this meme.

On the other hand, "learning by example" is considered a very valid way of acquiring knowledge and skills by educational psychologists.

To me, it's just another buzzword (but then again, many things are exactly that to me ;-)

Liz

^*Magical Programming
Changing parameters and order of statements in a working program, without any knowledge of the reason for the parameters and the order of statements, to achieve a vaguely described goal. For example: Joe "Magic" Programmer sees a program reading from a file. He decides he wants to make it Internet ready. At the program line where the file is opened, he inserts a URL instead of the filename and expects the program to work.