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Never? That sounds like a sure way to make sure any students who took that class would be very disengaged.
by vvanders 11y ago
Never?
That sounds like a sure way to make sure any students who took that class would be very disengaged.
- dsp1234 11y agoI did my first programming with pencil and paper, and I'm still engaged 30+ years later
- vvanders 11y agoWe're talking about high school here though. Seems to me it would be like running a chemistry class without doing any lab work.
- rondsquare 11y agoNot trying to be argumentative or anything, but that's how chemistry is taught in 3rd world countries. Labs are a luxury :)
- blt 11y agoI agree. One of the most magic moments when you start programming is when you write your first program that does a truly significant amount of work. You run it, you're still kind of on human time scale and think it's going to take a few seconds, but it finishes instantly. That was the moment that really hooked me into programming.
- mathetic 11y agoDepends on what you are doing. If you're trying to teach Van Emde Boas trees, then yeah without coding no one will like to work on that, but there are so many insightful topics. One example would be modal logic. There is something inherently attractive about reasoning about time. Once you put it into context, it is very difficult to not find it inspiring.