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I'm totally fine with both approaches, but I want to highlight two things the article mentioned: 1) budget concerns for monitors, computers, keyboards 2) stude
by fridif 5y ago
I'm totally fine with both approaches, but I want to highlight two things the article mentioned:
1) budget concerns for monitors, computers, keyboards
2) students cant type
I think I could teach an array traversal using skittles, and I could teach binary search using a physical english dictionary.
One would be surprised how much of coding is trying to understand the logic of what is trying to be done. The api call can come after
- drewzero1 5y agoIt definitely helped me start to understand sorting algorithms when I tried using skittles and other physical objects I could just move around. Before that it just looked like a magic loop that worked somehow, but afterward I had an idea of what the computer was doing in each step. Really, all algorithms are better when demonstrated on sweet treats. :)
- fridif 5y agobonus if you get to eat them!
- aidenn0 5y agoI think computer science can be taught very well without a computer. I'm more divided on if it's true of coding.