Case Study: How I designed an application to teach programming concepts

Re:Case Study: How I designed an application to teach progra... by RodgerTheGreat on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @09:57AM (#16316560)

I'm struck by how little of the design here reflects the topic the app is meant to teach. The prototypes shown mainly focus on login pages, navigation, and other functionality which could apply to teaching any topic, or indeed virtually any mobile app. The user story at the beginning could freely substitute "programming" with "cooking", "knitting", or "woodworking".

This project looks reasonably polished, but at the end of the day the least attention seems to be directed at what should, in principle, be the focus: teaching programming. Consider: is reading a few bite-sized paragraphs and answering a multiple-choice quiz how you learned any of the skills necessary to put this together in the first place?

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Re:Case Study: How I designed an application to teach progra... by thelittlewonder on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @10:28AM (#16316808)

Hi RodgerTheGreat.

The aim here is not to train someone for a software job but to help a person with zero programming knowledge get a basic understanding of programming concepts from where he/she can choose his path ahead if they wish to change career path or just want to learn something for fun. The aim is to increase programming literacy among the Indian masses.

and This was a hackathon project, so consider the time constraint as well.

Cheers!

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