On 04/02/2019 05:14, Matthew Polack wrote: > We had our first lesson today
Congrats, hope it goes well. But... > 2.) Another smaller group started to hit the wall... I'm not a professional or trained teacher but over the last 30 years or so I've been involved in classes teaching everything from 11 years to 70+ years old students. I've always, without fail, found that some students (say 10-20% of a class) just don't get programming. It seems to me that some folks just don't have their brains wired the right way. It doesn't matter what tools or languages you use, it even happens with graphical tools like flow charts. Some people just don't understand the concepts of logical flow and problem decomposition. You can, of course, force feed these folks to some extent and they will pick up the basics with a struggle but they will never be able to create any significant body of code on their own. I'm sure psychologists etc will have an explanation for this but I've given up trying to explain it, I now just accept that some people don't think that way. It's a bit like math. Some people don't get that either. They can learn Pythagoras' theorem and that it applies to right angled triangles and that triangles have 3 sides and that it is right angled if one corner is 90 degrees. But turn such a triangle on its side and they can no longer see the right angle, and don't understand how turning it around doesn't change the size of the angles etc. It just doesn't make any sense to them. And it seems the same is true for programming logic. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
