Quick Screen Index Retrieval Mystery

[Richard Witkopp]

I suppose I can see how this might happen. In our case, however,
the opposite happened, where a couple diehard procedure
coders finally saw The Light. We were fortunate to have a
stubborn instructor (Chuck "Mr. Rat" Reinke) that beat these
two mercilessly. We took Beginner, then Intermediate 3 months
later, then Advanced 3 months after that. They've changed the
names of the courses around a little since then.

> Yes, yes. I'll agree that the course material is probably 
> correctly balanced,
> but it cannot help but provide die-hard 3GL programmers with 
> the means to avoid
> the relatively alien 4GL concepts.
> 
> You can call it a failure on the part of some pupils to 
> listen closely, or you
> can consider it, as I do, a case of giving them too much 
> training too soon,
> and leaving them to pick up the comfortable bits (ie good old 
> 3GL programming).
> We sent two people on the advanced course, and one of them 
> included all
> procedures ever after, and resisted all persuasion otherwise, 
> although the
> other trainee was fine.
> 
> The original poster apparently has legacy code from a similar 
> 3GL-happy
> programmer, and there are doubtless plenty of them out there: 
> concepts are
> _much_ harder to teach and learn than languages.
> 
> Perhaps there's a case for a 3/4 day intermediate course, 
> with concepts and
> extra procedures (input, edit, process, pre/post etc), 
> leaving the default
> procedures alone.
> 
> Regards, Chris

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