NULL
Author: admin
-
Moron’s hightime
Perhaps you remember my girlfriends programming teacher. This year he doesn’t teach her C++ anymore but Delphi.
Different language, same problems. He gives a homework/test, then the studends give them back more or less correct and then he tells them their mark and that they should correct it. BUT without giving the tests back, so that the students would know, what they made wrong. And he doesn’t tell them how to make it right.
Recently he tries to hang the boss out: If the students want two tests per term, he chooses the time and date. If they want to choose theirselves, he only permits one test/term. So you have the choice of "all or nothing" but you know when or "a bit more security with a second shot" but you don’t know if the shots fall around dates where your schedule is filled up with tests in other subjects.
Sidenote to the tests: His exercises are formulated in quite technical language, come with a pre-defined layout, class- and function-structure and if you don’t build your solution into this, you get a worse mark. This is like learning a language just by copying letters written in that foreign language.
How should anyone learn programming in that way???
I think, he just has a problem with acceptation and so he enjoys forcing his students to do exactly what he wants, no matter how insane it is.
-
Evening action (3)
NULL
-
Evening action (2)
The release change is over, everything worked almost immediately, going home.
Have to get up at 06:00 to take my car (again) to the garage, so that they can fix my mirror, which they forgot last time.
-
Evening action
NULL
-
Educating new coders
Yesterday our team got a new member. Its current task will be to slowly grow into our systems, libraries and structures and (midterm) help us with the development of our solution.
It will be mostly my function to help him with that and show him every niche and the dark corners of our software.
This is the first non-trivial teaching exercise I have got and I’m willing to give my new collegue as much insight and knowledge as I can.
I showed him to the overall structure and flow yesterday and either he is cleverer than me when I were introduced to that or I’m a better teacher than the person who introduced me to the whole system two years ago. In fact, that doesn’t matter. What matters is, that he understands the whole stuff 🙂
-
Other peoples food
NULL