other words, they discovered "what to click to make a program", and clicked it. Without learning a damn thing about what they were actually doing.
Ps. Where do I find the "GOTO" button in Eclipse? (Someone get the defibrillator for Dave...) :) For me it's back to BASICs tonight. Another night, I shall begin learning either C (sans IDE!) or Pascal. Although I never took programming classes beyond 7th grade BASIC, I have a pretty decent memory of PASCAL (or maybe it was FORTRAN?) being the next thing offered in our school system. So part of me wants to follow that progression of what I should have learned had I taken computers in 9th grade instead of journalism! A strict educational language would probably be good for me. In other words I haven't made up my mind. Pascal. C. Swahili. So many languages!