I have taught some, and the most successful technique I employed was much the same as what a compiler does with chunking packets of instructions for the assembl

I have taught some, and the most successful technique I employed was much the same as what a compiler does with chunking packets of instructions for the assembler. It's fairly logical, actually very logical, inasmuch as it is to think that the human mind can process things in some discrete amount, and then move that data to the hindbrain and ready the visuo-spatial cortex for more. Repetition is key for this to happen, yet we don't really reiterate a lot (well, in my humble experience) of the things we learn as CS students, other than the bajillion attempts to code properly on our own. We do things maybe twice, three times, then we take some notes or move on to a different part of the subject. The brain needs a 'lot' of repetition to have something down like we do things that require muscle memory. So, how to make something that would, on its face, appear tedious into a feature set? Well, again, from my humble teaching experience, and to extend the muscle memory analogy: muscle confusion! Mix up the media used to teach, and be creative about it. Don't just copy paste a slideshow from a dataset that some UW prof has put together, and then add a video from a YouTube tut, and call that a multimedia presentation (no offense, I know teaching is fucking hard, I'm being ideal here). Instead, MAKE UP a cool little ditty about what constitutes a class declaration (punny, no?) and then couple that with a dance that entails the two dancers to be logical constructs like XOR and NOT and have a little memory register ho-down...lol. Ok, well like I said, muscle confusion, but with the various lobes of e mind being entertained and enervated, booooi (said to the voice of Flava-Flav). IF in doubt, simply go piece by piece, building larger chunks of data for he students to learn and reiterate over each new chunk aggregating the last until the entire set of concepts is learned well enough to be determined comprehensive.