I love the idea of interactive learning (between students), after getting a lecture+project broadcast. Syntax is a killer for new programs, things just don't w

I love the idea of interactive learning (between students), after getting a lecture+project broadcast. Syntax is a killer for new programs, things just don't work and weird errors sprout up (newer languages have fantastic IDEs to minimize this impact). Ideally it'd be groovy if teachers could get paid to build some functional (simple?) tools with their classes. Students could learn and produce at the same time, but in a limited/structured way. Professors do this type of research with grad students all the time. Companies do this type of thing with new employees all the time (mentor + noobs). Brings back memories of my first college coding project. Getting true basic to identify harmonics within a metal rod, and displaying info about the structure (thanks to Bjorn Einerson for doing the heavy lifting that weekend). About the same time I was cursing (syntax) at my green and back CRT in the main library while coding up a simple 6 node neural net in C (backpropagation).