Just for the record, I don't teach using any IDE.

I teach using Text-Edit and the command line.

And I didn't teach them to use strict and warnings in the very first class, because, despite the fact that I know all about them and use them all the time, that was simply too much information.

We're talking about people who did not know what the command line is, and every mistake they made was at such a basic level that compile failed. Using "Print" instead of "print", getting quotes, brackets, commas wrong, not knowing what a semicolon looks like, etc., seriously. I'm almost proud that someone got made a mistake so minimal as an O instead of a zero. Most of the time they couldn't remember which window was the script and which window was the Terminal.

Fun.


Nobody says perl looks like line-noise any more
kids today don't know what line-noise IS ...

In reply to Re: Barewords equal zero? by Cody Pendant
in thread Barewords equal zero? by Cody Pendant

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