Construction Quote by Niklaus Wirth

Programming is usually taught by examples.

— Niklaus Wirth

Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

— Alan Turing

Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.

— Niklaus Wirth

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could…

— Niklaus Wirth

My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for…

— Seymour Papert

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Something I've really enjoyed learning more about is course design.

— Ernie Els

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

— Jean Piaget

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I…

— John Carmack

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

— Robert W. Floyd