Who thought that not setting the “Reply replies to the ML” option was a good idea?
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rik <rik.j.cr...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:31 PM Subject: Re: Beginner Tutorials To: kwpol...@gmail.com On Friday, January 18, 2013 7:20:13 PM UTC, Kwpolska wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Rik <rik.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=don%27t+disable+right+click > > > 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. > > Ways to overcome it: > (a) curl/python -c 'import requests; requests.get('/wget > http://usingpython.com/; (a nice textarea with the code > (b) browser development tools, view source keyboard shortcuts etc.; > (c) OCR; > (d) disabling JavaScript; > (e) writing it by hand, because it is relatively short. > > > 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. > > Can’t you fail them (or whatnot) if they don’t learn that? That > sounds like the best solution to such problems. Yeah I could, and maybe for larger problems i'll maybe not block the code, I just find that students copy/paste the examples and *think* they understand what's going on, and then aren't able to be independent in solving similar problems. This way they are sort of 'forced' to actually understand the examples to a level that i'm happy will hep them solve other problems. It's my job to guide their learning in that way. > > > > > > 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 :) > > WordPress ≠ Python, unless your password is a code used to generate > the 01189998819991197253 number out of prime factorization or > something like that. Now that'd make a nice problem :) > > > > Thanks for the comments. > > -- > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > -- > Kwpolska <http://kwpolska.tk> | GPG KEY: 5EAAEA16 > stop html mail | always bottom-post > http://asciiribbon.org | http://caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
