[Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 12:42:08 CEST 2016


On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Michael Schnell via Lazarus <
lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

> On 13.10.2016 10:20, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
>
>> +1
>> That would be the best solution. GUI programming is based on
>> fundamentals than need to be understood first.
>>
>
> -1 !!
>
> The OP explained that his main purpose is to introduce more fun in the
> education.  That can be done by plunging into programming directly with GUI
> development.
>
> This is why RAD had been invented.
>
> Of course there are decent drawbacks regarding relying too much on RAD and
> about not really understanding the fundamentals behind it.
>
> But in the end the addressees are non-computer engineers.
>
> -Michael
> --
> _______________________________________________
>


As an engineer , they need to write programs for doing computations not
available in ready-made packages . Therefore , they need to a sufficient
knowledge to write programs . This can be achieved in a good balance of
learning programming itself and GUI application .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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