[Tutor] Tutoring co-workers.

[trent shipley]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 8:08 AM Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:

> On 2/25/22 14:59, trent shipley wrote:
> > I'm looking at the possibility of teaching programming to a couple of
> > coworkers.  Python is an excellent pedagogical programming language, with
> > the added benefit of what you learn being directly applicable and
> > marketable in many work contexts.
> >
> > in the late 1980s, I took
> > computer science 110 and 210 in Pascal and turned in the code for my
> > assignments on fan-fold paper hard copy.
>
> My first "formal" language was also Pascal (had previously learned
> Fortran and Basic outside an academic setting). It was the era of
> Pascal, I guess (mine was a little earlier, we had to jockey for the
> very small number of cursor-addressable ADM 3a terminals that made
> screen-based editing possible).
>
> >
> > My goal is to use it for teaching coding by giving the same attention to
> my
> > students' feedback which Marrion Deckert gave to my ealy software writing
> > education, but without paper and at a distance.  How close can I come to
> > this vaporware ideal?
> >
> > (Oh yes, and a student should be able to drop their corrected code, with
> > all the history and comments hidden, straight into a syntax checker,
> REPL,
> > interpreter, or compiler.)
>
> There are some new and shiny ways to maybe get some of the spirit of
> this with some of the online collaborative editing environments, when
> combined with a github repo.  It would be very different than red pen on
> fanfold paper, but...  I don't know too many of the entrants in this
> exploding field, but take a look at Gipod, Replit or Codeshare.
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Thanks Mat.  This looks useful.