[Lazarus] Teaching Pascal at College

[Michael Schnell]

On 18.10.2016 15:23, Jürgen Hestermann via Lazarus wrote:
>
> IMO the order is extremly important!
> If you start with the fundamental informations
> (how does the processor work in general,
> how are variables stored (stack/heap/etc.),
> what does the processor do in loops, etc.)
> then this information is remembered very well
> because everybody can imagine what goes on in general.
> You can *predict* what will (should) happen in your program.
IMO the order is extremely important!

If you start with complex stuff that does not yield immediate success 
(i.e. a working program that does something that might be useful) The 
students will loose interest and run away, unless they are nerds like 
ourselves.

-Michael