Linda Grandell wrote:
How about making a small graphics library that has Shape objects. You
create a shape object and manipulate it's attributes such as position,
color, size, numOfVertices (triangle, square, pentagram), etc. Then
you can teach subclassing a shape object, and finally making your
Lloyd Hugh Allen wrote:
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:02:15 +0200, Linda Grandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I wonder if letting the students pair up for themselves could work? That
would more or less be a variant of the second alternative above. Or does
this introduce the risk of weaker students pairin
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:02:15 +0200, Linda Grandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wonder if letting the students pair up for themselves could work? That
> would more or less be a variant of the second alternative above. Or does
> this introduce the risk of weaker students pairing up with strong
>
In my book, OOP and graphical programming *are* two different things.
I totally agree on this. What I, however, do see as a potential risk
here is that the division might lead to students thinking thoughts such as
"So now we quit the OOP part and continue with graphics. OK, so no we
don't have t
I think graphics is a great way to teach programming, because it gives
such strong feedback to the students.
So do I. The students seemed rather happy with the text-based
programming in the introductory course... And why shouldn't they? There
are so many things to learn about programming itself be
How to assign the pairs has also been a question on my mind, so I am
very glad this came up.
Pair programming is fine and works best when both are
of equal ability.
...
* students with the top two grades are partners, next two, next two, and so on
* Highest grade gets to pick partner from the c
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:59:26 +1100 (EST), Darren Payne
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pair programming is fine and works best when both are
> of equal ability. I would encourage you to avoid
> putting a stronger / more able person with a weaker /
> less able person - the stronger one will get very
>