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Meanwhile my sister's first programming course at university involved making a game using an existing bespoke framework. It mostly involved adding graphics and
by foxfluff 5y ago
Meanwhile my sister's first programming course at university involved making a game using an existing bespoke framework. It mostly involved adding graphics and a few methods & some properties to objects (which already had physics etc. implemented) in an otherwise more or less done project base. I don't know about retaining or intimidation but I feel like it was way too much "just fill in the gaps, look you have a character on the screen now" and that they really failed to teach the basics of programming and I got the vibe that students finished the course not really having any clue how the whole thing works at all. The next course was object oriented programming at the deep end.
I feel like she's still struggling with the basics and doesn't have much self confidence at all. And she's not dumb.
- stingraycharles 5y ago> Meanwhile my sister's first programming course at university involved making a game using an existing bespoke framework. I had exactly the same exercise on my first day on uni, we had to take some robot maze pathfinder game and adjust the algorithm a bit. As someone who had been writing code for over a decade at that point (but who was unfamiliar with Java), I still remember it was intimidating. I cannot imagine how it must have felt for people without prior coding experience.
- void-pointer 5y agoWarwick? :) In hindsight, the quality of teaching actual coding at my uni was pretty poor. But coding in general is pretty hard to teach well in that setting.