Depends Quote by Niklaus Wirth

Programming is usually taught by examples.

— Niklaus Wirth

Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely…

— Niklaus Wirth

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

— Alan Turing

...course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned)...

— F. M. Scherer

“Most arguments are about programming; most resolutions are reached through a process of unlearning then relearning.”

— Oli Anderson

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

— Donald Knuth

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate…

— Dee Hock

The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.

— Jeff Cooper

Programming is an explanatory activity.

— Roman Harper

Learning of all kinds goes on best, lasts best, and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out of a real focus…

— Carl Rogers

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

— James Anthony Froude

Experience gives us the tests first and the lessons later.

— Naomi Judd