Beginner Tutorials

[Ritchie Flick]

Still a student myself and even if you really want to become good at what
you're doing, some days one just feels lazy and in the mood for
copy/pasting to get the job done quickly xD
I like the site, will check it out ;)


On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Rik <rik.j.cross at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The reason for disabling right-click has nothing to do with protecting
>> content, and everything to do with stopping my students from taking the
>> lazy way out.
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>> Given the chance, they'll copy/paste the code and download the designs
>> and edit them slightly. They'd get through the tutorials in about 25
>> minutes and have learnt next to nothing.
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> Ha Ha! that is hilarious.  I haven't been a student for a while.  I guess
> I am naive to think that young people would be interested, and take
> pleasure in becoming proficient rather than just a quick way to get a
> better grade.
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>> In talking to students about existing resources, they said that blindly
>> copying code didn't really help them get a deep understanding of algorithms
>> and how to apply them to other problems.
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>> In the password-protected solutions i will provide downloads to source
>> code, etc, and any student smart enough to get around my protection
>> probably understands python basics :)
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>> Thanks for the comments.
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