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Re:Japan adding mandatory programming education to all eleme... by adrianN on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @01:54AM (#11759235)
> whose work sheets

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

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Re:Japan adding mandatory programming education to all eleme... by marak830 on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @01:59AM (#11759253)
Haha I'm on a train and autocorrect is a bit of a bitch :-p

(That actually scares the crap out of me, missing something like that on something I give the students)

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Re:Japan adding mandatory programming education to all eleme... by broodbucket on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @02:36AM (#11759383)
Programmers make mistakes all the time, so I suppose it's fair that English teachers can screw up English :)
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Re:Japan adding mandatory programming education to all eleme... by marak830 on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @02:59AM (#11759471)
I'm a programmer too :-p does that mean I can make double?
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Re:Japan adding mandatory programming education to all eleme... by bitJericho on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @02:40AM (#11759403)
My wonderful English teacher gave extra credit on correcting her own worksheets.
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Re:Japan adding mandatory programming education to all eleme... by marak830 on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @03:00AM (#11759474)
That is a genius idea. I might float it past one of my head English teachers!
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Re:Japan adding mandatory programming education to all eleme... by newjersey on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @06:51AM (#11760375)
We had the same in the differential equations class. Attention and participation jumped and stayed up. Very interesting.
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