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Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 ([personal profile] azurelunatic) wrote2003-08-24 11:52 pm

Computers & teen lit

Anyone who cites The Mark of Conte as a major deciding factor in their choice to pursue a computer degree should be given a psychiatric evaluation before allowing them to enter the program.

...That was one of my favorite books as an early teen. It's a good yarn, but the execution is... well... it's a poster child for the "Show, don't tell" thing. It is, of course, being the bad example...