Hi Simon, I don't think SWC assumes any previous programming knowledge for our novice lessons. In fact, I'd say that most of the people in our workshops fit the description for your intern.
So why don't use our lessons? If they don't know anything at all, probably you need to follow the lesson with them. Best, Ivan > El 21/5/2015, a las 6:28, Waldman, Simon M <[email protected]> escribió: > > This is perhaps slightly off-topic; apologies if it’s considered too far off. > > As I understand it, SWC generally assumes that it’s teaching people with > basic (often self-taught) programming skills, and adding good practice. > > In supervising a young intern, I recently found myself in a position of > teaching somebody who had never done any coding and did not have the basic > ideas of variables, arrays (and indexing into them), functions and their > arguments, etc. I confess that I didn’t do very well with it, which led to > some frustration all round. > > Can anybody recommend resources on good approaches to take here? > > Many thanks > Simon > > -- > Simon Waldman > PhD Researcher, ICIT / Heriot-Watt University > Email: [email protected] Skype: swaldman-work > > > > > We invite research leaders and ambitious early career researchers to join us > in leading and driving research in key inter-disciplinary themes. Please see > www.hw.ac.uk/researchleaders for further information and how to apply. > > Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number > SC000278. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
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