> The idea that a teacher should ever touch a student keyboard in a computer science or programming class to me is absurd. I agree. In this case, the students

> The idea that a teacher should ever touch a student keyboard in a computer science or programming class to me is absurd. I agree. In this case, the students who seemed to work this way were mostly (all?) ESL students, and none of the tutors spoke the native language of the students. So it could be difficult even to indicate what you wanted them to look at, and it was especially frustrating when the errors they were dealing with were trivial syntax errors.