Re: LOGO-L> QUESTION ON CONDITIONAL OUTPUTS

[George Mills <mills@softronix.com>]

bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU wrote:
> 
> 
> And I still think Microsoft is not going to write Office 2003 in Logo
> no matter how software engineery it gets, and the point of Logo isn't
> to train future software engineers.  But this sounds like one of those
> things we'll have to agree to disagree about.
> 

I agree that the point of Logo is not to create future software
engineers. But we make sure students have good skills and
habits when doing math that probably won't be mathematicians.
We also make sure chemistry students practice safety that don't
plan on being chemists etc etc.

I think some of the habits I mentioned are analogous to
other sciences and relate to working with other people.
Documenting what your doing (comments in the case of programming)
and stating your assumptions (error checking in the case of
programming).
I think one can easily imagine these same good habits applying to
Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and even Chemical
Engineering etc. All these carriers often involve working in
teams and passing your work along to others or part of a larger
system that others must interface with.

Here are some examples in Electrical Engineering:

"Good Comments" in Electrical Engineering would be Good Block Diagrams
Well Labeled schematics, Well Labeled PC boards so that another
engineer can follow the design.

"Good Error Checking" would be Status LEDs/Buzzers, Status LCD panels,
Powerup Selftest, Voltage Regulators, Fused Circuits,
Parity bits on busses and transmission lines, Test points, Static
protection.

Like programming these do add cost, can use up precious power,
use up space etc. The "engineer" needs to decide what's needed
and what's over kill.

Now that I think about it, us programmers have it pretty easy :-)

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