footpad,

Thank you for your response1(damn I'm outta votes!). I think you nailed the underlying issue that was bothering me but I couldn't get my finger on, that being the "judgement of fitness".

Some of us learned how to program in a vacume, without books or teachers, and yes there are a lot of bad habits that need to be broken from such an education. Although I still can't see a debugger as a bad habit -- it's just another tool.

There are so few that even attempt to code, and such harsh judgements only serve to detract from the education that such judges are trying to teach.

Telling a child that they are stupid when they do something wrong does not teach them how to do something right, it only re-enforces a sense of futility.

coreolyn

1Great Mozart / Salieri comparison

In reply to Re: (footpad): Re: On being a programmer by coreolyn
in thread How to debug unknown dynamic code? by gaspodethewonderdog

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