On 10/29/2015 7:40 AM, Matthew Gidden wrote:
A big +1 for explicitly introducing failure during the learning process. I recently taught a course for people brand new to programming. There were some explicit failures I added to some lessons, and I still underestimated just how uncomfortable they would be with (even simple) error messages.
...is there some statistics on this? I think that errors would be a lot less scary if we could show how much of their time even those that code for a living spend on debugging their code.
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