Comments on: Teaching New Programmers http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2010/04/19/teaching-new-programmers/ babblings of a computer loving fool Mon, 21 Nov 2016 19:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.2 By: Catherine Devlin http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2010/04/19/teaching-new-programmers/comment-page-1/#comment-31339 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:19:50 +0000 http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2010/04/19/teaching-new-programmers/#comment-31339 Preach it, brother.

This is what comes of somebody being *told* comments are good, and *believing* it as a duly received dogma, without ever apparently having done enough meaningful programming of their own (and worked with the code of others) to actually know *why* and *when* they’re useful.

]]> By: Rick Harding http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2010/04/19/teaching-new-programmers/comment-page-1/#comment-31336 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:30:34 +0000 http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2010/04/19/teaching-new-programmers/#comment-31336 My only thing would be to say that perhaps these comments were there to reinforce the terminology used to the location of things within a sample program to people new to programming.

However, if that were true I’d think the comments would ONLY be in the sample code and not in a slide on “good” comments.

So you have my blessing to rant away.

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