Subj : Re: Good examples of programming course lecture notes
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer
From : Aggro
Date : Sun Sep 04 2005 06:53 pm

Roedy Green wrote:

> No student ever failed.  I had THEM at the boards writing code most of
> the time. I could then easily tell if they were getting what I was
> teaching. 

That is a very good method. But there is a small risk that only few 
students go to the boards and the rest don't have a clue about what is 
happening, while the few get it complitely.

Teacher shouldn't ask for volunteers to get to the boards, teacher 
should try to find the one who least understands the subject and make 
that person come up to the board.

This can be very slow, since some things has to be repeated over and 
over again for everyone to understand. But IMHO, it is better to have 
only one hour of studying, when you fully understand everything. Rather 
than going to school every day for a 6 months and understand nothing.

I'm not a teacher, but I have been a student for a great variety of 
teachers. I'm lazy student, like most of my class has been. I hardly 
ever do homework, so it is very important that I learn the things in the 
class room and that I have time to try and use that information.

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