From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2001-09-23T03:49:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21560] Re: Math and Programming

On Saturday 22 September 2001 11:05 am, Brian Marick wrote:

> The rest of the book will be much more about strings and arrays and
> non-math classes.

I'd consider presenting objects first, rather than operations on "plain old 
data". See 
http://csis.pace.edu/%7Ebergin/papers/Whynotproceduralfirst.html
for a good description of why.


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