"Many years ago an advertisement appeared frequently in popular
magazines which displayed a photograph of a man or a woman
seated before a piano. The caption below read: ""I learned to play in
five easy lessons."" We are going to learn the principles of computer
programming in one easy lesson.
We know, of course, that it is possible to learn to play a simple
tune, ""Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,"" and a few others, over a period
of five weeks, with practice and five easy lessons. This is, however,
a limited repertoire. This hoax that one can learn anything in five
easy lessons will be perpetuated by this talk. A few simple, but
typical, procedures will be examined, and the corresponding computer
programs will be outlined. The characteristics of programs
in connection with these exercises will be discussed, but it takes
years to learn to perform well on a computer."
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (2nd : 1964)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
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