Thanks for all the comments on- and off-list. I'm travelling at present, but will look through them when I have time, and I'm sure I'll be able to improve.
From: Discuss [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Waldman, Simon M Sent: 21 May 2015 11:28 To: Software Carpentry Discussion Subject: [Discuss] Teaching programming from scratch 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]<mailto:[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<http://www.hw.ac.uk/researchleaders> for further information and how to apply. Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278. ----- 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.
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