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This is the talk I gave at BCB 11 . I talked about teaching programming to students, particularly rural students and the pedagogy that I experimented and modified as I progressed
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How to teach Programming?Lessons from the field
Hemanth Haridasesadhana.in
How to teach Programming?Lessons from the field
Hemanth Haridasesadhana.in
Motivate to learn
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The resources• Online course at esadhana.in- get them to
write code in less than 30 seconds• Greenfoot – awesome – get them to like
coding.• Eclipse.• Few other sites etc
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• Initially started with teaching them .• Then figured that its not working• So gave them all the resources, • Asked them to learn themselves• prepared lots of tests.
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Objective• Just one• To help students get jobs• Train them to get jobs
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CHALLENGES Meticuluous data collection, building platform , Measuring learning
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Experiences – Day -1 (2 hr session)• Getting people to talk• Motivating • Setting the rules.• Showing them the platform• assignment
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Day 2 & Day 3 (full days)• Students had’nt done the assignments.• Installations• Getting familiar.