Re: Counting SLOC in Emacs

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>]

On 2014-11-29, at 10:46, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:

> () Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
> () Fri, 28 Nov 2014 17:00:42 +0100
>
>    I'm planning to run a code reading seminar for some
>    ambitious students at my faculty.  I'm wondering whether
>    it could be a good idea to study this;).
>
>    (In fact, not really - at least not in the beginning -
>    let them learn some more typical stuff before exposing
>    young minds to Emacs Lisp with its peculiarities, like
>    `interactive'.  We'll start with Python and JS, though
>    some Common Lisp is also planned.)
>
> That's like "teaching" a child to walk one leg, the first
> week, the other, the second, and together, only afterwards.
>
> Ugh; Not Recommended.
>
> Everything is peculiar in some respect.  If you choose those
> of Emacs Lisp, your students may grind their teeth but they
> will eventually learn some self-respect (and maybe some love
> for parentheses :-D).

I'm not sure if I get you.

What I meant was: in this Elisp code, you have some really atypical
things (from general programming point if view), like the tight coupling
between the language and buffer (as a data structure).  Given that my
students are beginners, some of them only exposed to really basics of
programming, I don't want them to deal with too many new concepts at
once.  I view it rather as teaching to walk the first few weeks, and
only then teaching to run;-).

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University