On being an academic, a farmer, a scientist, an educator, a mom, ...Teaching Introductory Programming: We’re Doing It Wrong (still)
October 3rd, 2009 by Katrin BeckerI just read Mark Guzdial’s excellent post on some of what’s wrong with how we teach introductory programming courses.
Question Everything: How We Teach Intro CS is Wrong
The notion that we should be modeling expert behaviour when teaching programming is silly. Experts work quite differently from novices. We accept this as a given in sport – if you make a novice do things an expert does you could very well cause them to injure themselves.
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