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Re: [OFFTOPIC, but possibly amusing] [was: peasant revoltagainst Dr Scheme!]

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Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC, but possibly amusing] [was: peasant revoltagainst Dr Scheme!]
From: Mark Guzdial <guzdial@cc.gatech.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:03:28 -0500
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At 9:15 AM -0600 1/23/01, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
>Jerry is wrong about GUIs. I don't dislike them. I dislike them if they are
>`taught' in the first course. Using them is fine.

Could you expand on this, Matthias?  What's wrong with having 
students study and build GUIs in a first course?

Mark

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