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Taught programming to high school students for twenty years.... I liked using a bunch of projects with increasing difficulty that students could move through a

by teach 9y ago

Taught programming to high school students for twenty years.... I liked using a bunch of projects with increasing difficulty that students could move through at their own pace. The difference in coding aptitude is really quite astonishing. I wrote a blog post explaining how I used to teach beginners in tremendous detail: https://grahammitchell.com/writings/how-i-teach-beginners.html https://grahammitchell.com/writings/how-i-teach-beginners.ht... I'm not a big fan of CodeCademy; it's seductive but the kids end up not knowing how to do very much at the end. Khan Academy has a decent HTML/CSS/JavaScript curriculum. I never personally used it with students because I wasn't teaching Web Development anymore once they rolled it out. However, I think it looks pretty good. Might be a little fast for some kids. Anyway, hope that helps.

cornholio 9y ago
Thank you for this, indeed the speed differences are large.
tudelo 9y ago
That's an interesting way to teach, acting much like someone running a college level CS lab, except you also have the benefit of creating the material. I think this is one of the better ways I have read to teach this sort of stuff. No one will be left behind and those who are fast are not held back. The only problem I can see is class sizes but with a low enough size, this seems like an awesome teaching method.