Re: Pedagogical style [was Re: The "loop and a half"]

2017-10-06 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2017-10-05, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > In fairness to Stefan, we should also include iteration and > assignment as concepts being learned, but in this case they are > directly connected to the immediate problem rather than at best > only indirectly, and distantly, related. Teaching the iteration

Re: Pedagogical style [was Re: The "loop and a half"]

2017-10-06 Thread ROGER GRAYDON CHRISTMAN
On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 8:18 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote: > Steve D'Aprano writes: > >> There's no link to the original paper, only to secondary sources that discuss >> it, e.g.: >> >> http://phys.org/pdf128266927.pdf > > >> [1] Anecdotes are not data, but for what it is worth, just in the last two >> d

Re: Pedagogical style [was Re: The "loop and a half"]

2017-10-05 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 05.10.17 um 19:04 schrieb Steve D'Aprano: On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 07:29 am, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: To understand Stefan's way of teaching, take a look at his other courses, for example the C++ course: Thanks for this Christian. It has been an eye-opener. More comments below. You're welco

Re: Pedagogical style [was Re: The "loop and a half"]

2017-10-05 Thread Ben Bacarisse
Steve D'Aprano writes: > There's no link to the original paper, only to secondary sources that discuss > it, e.g.: > > http://phys.org/pdf128266927.pdf > [1] Anecdotes are not data, but for what it is worth, just in the last two > days I came across two examples of this. Teaching a boy in Year

Pedagogical style [was Re: The "loop and a half"]

2017-10-05 Thread Steve D'Aprano
On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 07:29 am, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: > To understand Stefan's way of teaching, take a look at his other > courses, for example the C++ course: Thanks for this Christian. It has been an eye-opener. More comments below. > http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/c