Re: XP is great

Keith Williams wrote:
When I was teaching, I'd use nothing other than white (or black - the college didn't spend much on education;) boards. I tried teaching from prepared materials, but it put the students to sleep. Using the board made it easier to gauge the pace of the students and to veer off into a ditch when necessary.

We had an early one of those things that could be set on an overhead projector and connected to a laptop. When I was teaching introduction to programming, I would typically spend the first quarter to half the period introducing something new. I would then state a problem and enter the code the class suggested and try to run it. When it didn't work, we would go through looking for the problem.

This whole thing went over very well because it was _their_ program not mine and they got to see what doesn't work as well as what does.

Ted

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