One of the things I’ve noticed about teaching programming is that a good work day, when they’re just typing along, is a pretty quiet day. Until the students get to debugging they are pretty content.
Yesterday as everyone was working out of nowhere someone yelled, “OH SHOOT, I AM TOO BLOOD.”
Everyone looked and it was a student I had given a little extra work too earlier. He finished the first program, our first step into variables, and I told him to add his own variables and print.out statements of his own. I also told him he had to figure out how to do it on his own (gasp!).
When he got his program to compile and run I guess he was just too excited to contain himself and just had to remind himself how good he was. I thought it was pretty cool that he could get so excited about programming. As we get deeper into writing programs I’m hoping that even more students will get so excited that they can’t contain themselves.
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