Oh... New Programmers suck at estimating project completion time. I mean this, it's bad. They will procrastinate, often unintentionally. Of course you can war

Oh... New Programmers suck at estimating project completion time. I mean this, it's bad. They will procrastinate, often unintentionally. Of course you can warn them, and give them lab time in class, but that may not be enough, so plan for what you will do about late assignments. I know one teacher who always gave specific deadlines, and then moved them on the due date, just to get people to start working earlier. Even that wasn't entirely successful.