Sobre aprender a programar y la frase 'independiente del lenguaje'
En We Should Stop Saying ‘Language Independent.’ We Don’t Know How To Do That una nota interesante sobre la famosa frase ‘independiente del lenguaje’ y cómo el lenguaje en el que aprendemos nos influye.
Habla de la investigación de Allison Elliott Tew y Miranda Parker sobre estudiantes de programación con diferentes lenguajes y cómo los errores que se comenten en unos se parecen más a algunos otros que a la generalidad:
Notice that the most common wrong answer is exactly the same. The 2nd most common wrong answer in Java is idiosyncratic (which is interesting), but the 2nd most common wrong answer for both MATLAB and Python is the 3rd most common wrong answer for Java. The 4th most common wrong answer for Java is the same as the 5th most common wrong answer for Python. We didn’t see that wrong answer in MATLAB, but surprisingly, there were only 4 wrong answers for MATLAB.
Lo que dice el autor es que tenemos lenguajes diferentes porque creemos que eso tiene algún valor (marca alguna diferencia).
We have different languages because we think that those differences make a difference. For an assessment to be language independent, it would have to be measuring something deeper than those differences.
Interesante.