I agree that letting newbies actually put their code into a 'prodution' environment would be disastrous.

But I think it would be great for newbies to be able to view the source and make changes on their own systems. If they think they are on to something then they can submit a patch for a more advanced monk to approve and checkin to a source tree.

I helped teach intro programming courses and I found that a newbie often had excellent ideas because his/her mental slate was clean. I think most of us get stuck in little programming paradigms that are hard to see out of. Sometimes a fresh look at problems (no matter what the skill level) can be extremely advantageous.

In reply to RE: RE: RE: User Requests Quest by perlmonkey
in thread User Requests Quest by vroom

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