Timeline for How To Explain To My Dad What I have Programmed
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| Apr 27, 2012 at 10:29 | comment | added | mhoran_psprep | again I am not a teacher. They are non-programmers who want me to volunteer my lunch hour to teach them programming. So I get them started, a few have realized you can't learn it in an hour, but they get excited and the learning is easy. Others can't see how you can use a "hello world" program as a place to start playing with programming. | |
| Apr 27, 2012 at 10:01 | comment | added | Spoike | Bad students (or morally bankrupt ones) also tend to crop up in organizations later on. I once met a "professional" who produced goto code in a .NET app and didn't want to budge to customer requirements. He somehow managed to pass programming courses in his education. | |
| Apr 27, 2012 at 9:55 | comment | added | Spoike | @Caleb, maybe you haven't encountered them but there are students who still don't give a damn even after the 5th session and just pay you to do their assignments. Such behavior makes you not want to live in this planet anymore. | |
| Apr 27, 2012 at 7:42 | comment | added | Caleb | @Spoike There's no indication of students giving up on the teacher. mhoran_psprep explains that those people who don't take off on their own after the first lesson "will not become a programmer." People learn at different rates; it may take a while for the light to turn on. After just one lesson, some may not have internalized enough to really understand what they can write, let alone what they want to write. | |
| Apr 27, 2012 at 7:27 | comment | added | Spoike | @Caleb: It's also a poor student who gives up on a teacher after the first lesson. You might argue that it is the teachers responsibility to inspire, but if the student has other goals to attain with a subject matter (such as getting a well paid job by programming) that is not in alignment with the craft itself then both the teacher and the student will be in a world of pain. | |
| Apr 26, 2012 at 20:58 | comment | added | mhoran_psprep | Never said I was a teacher, these are coworkers who think they can learn how to program in a couple of hours. | |
| Apr 26, 2012 at 20:49 | comment | added | Caleb | It's a poor teacher who gives up on a student after the first lesson. | |
| Apr 26, 2012 at 20:27 | history | answered | mhoran_psprep | CC BY-SA 3.0 |