Beware Book Learning(overcomingbias.com)
overcomingbias.com
Beware Book Learning
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/10/beware-book-learning.html
2 comments
The author is rather nitpicky, and in my opinion overly so. At a beginner's level, teaching students to break down problems into solvable pieces, then using functions or methods to implement each piece is a sufficient introduction to modular programming. I feel that the concepts behind writing modular programs come naturally, especially when you see them in practice when using external libraries.
Does someone know what painting is in the overcoming bias's header?
Looks like John William Waterhouse's Ulysses and the Sirens: http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/picture.aspx?id=5614&n...
many thanks