Why Has It Been So Challenging?

• Algorithm design, programming, application development, etc. are intellectually tough … why?

  • There is no “cookbook solution” … each case has its own logic and requires its own reasoning
  • The solution must be exactly right in every detail
  • The language used to express the solution (VB6) is new to you, strange and unforgiving
  • The context -- Windows operating system, the VB6.0 development environment, the UW computing facilities -- is also new and complicated

Learn by example and analogy

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