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I’m not super familiar with what “worked examples” are exactly - do you have any you could share? I also find learning via tutorials inefficient.
by itsgrimetime 5y ago
I’m not super familiar with what “worked examples” are exactly - do you have any you could share? I also find learning via tutorials inefficient.
- Jtsummers 5y agoThe example in the article is from math. Something like presenting what you would expect the learner to do, the actual process: 3x ---- = 12 2 3x = 24 x = 8 Have the learner (and teachers of course do this in classrooms) walk through that example and study it (along with others). In the context of programming, this would be to show an existing program and have the learner read it and/or retype it with the code present (how many of us self-taught coders figured it out in the pre-Web times). This contrasts with directing the learner to solve that initial equation, or to write a particular program. The utility (per this article and quickly tracking down some more material on it) is more for the first time learners, and as they learn more they'll end up getting more value from working problems out themselves (versus studying more worked examples).