Re:Magic and Loss, Part 1: Magic in the Cards
by thom on Sunday September 10, 2023 @01:25PM
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Huh, you're not wrong. The other time I quite shamelessly hacked something together with my son in Roblox Studio just to show what was possible. I did have to resist scorning all the snippets of code I came across (and I do think there are valuable design lessons to learn on that platform) and just did the simplest possible thing.
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Re:Magic and Loss, Part 1: Magic in the Cards
by gota on Sunday September 10, 2023 @02:52PM
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Absolutely - I think teaching programming in a language, framework or paradigm you (the teacher) does not know has huge advantages for a specific level of newcomer
In my experience it is a good lesson for about 50% of absolute beginners, but a great lesson for 99% of folks who have just started grokking their "first" language etc.
I am now in the process of teaching an absolute beginner in my family and in this case I'll stick to my specialties because I can tell they'll become frustrated if they can't get _something_ working on their own. Thus, I bet they want clear "unstucking" help rather than a "let me google that with you". They are more concerned with the 1st thing, and not the broader "how does someone who know this stuff goes about learning?"
Anyway, I digress - in any case these initial lessons are great for me as a teacher to experience that discovery through them