{"id":7128,"date":"2017-04-25T08:55:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T00:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7128"},"modified":"2017-04-25T08:55:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T00:55:50","slug":"copying-repetition-zed-a-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/25\/copying-repetition-zed-a-shaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Copying &#038; Repetition \u2013 Zed A. Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I believe Computer Science education could benefit greatly from copying and repetition at the beginner level and possibly later. \u00a0Copying is how a vast majority of programmers learned to code, but many CS educators deny this fact. \u00a0If you\u2019re imagining yourself at 12 trying to learn to code, then I\u2019m betting you had either a book or website with code that you copied and made work. \u00a0This should just be how we start people in programming, and not the current method of conceptual \u201cweed out\u201d classes. Repetition<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/zedshaw.com\/2017\/04\/24\/copying-repetition\/comment-page-1\/#comment-206\">Copying &amp; Repetition \u2013 Zed A. Shaw<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI try to do this when mentoring new programmers in the company I work for. I purposely google stuff that I know to hint that googling is important and should not make them ashamed. Having a model software project is also useful in a sense that I tell them this is how we believe this should be done, please try copying how they did what they did in the the model project.<br \/>\nBeing given the permission to make mistakes.<br \/>\nBeing given the guidance of how we believe it should be done.<br \/>\nBeing given the latitude to make up ones mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe Computer Science education could benefit greatly from copying and repetition at the beginner level and possibly later. \u00a0Copying is how a vast majority of programmers learned to code, but many CS educators deny this fact. \u00a0If you\u2019re imagining yourself at 12 trying to learn to code, then I\u2019m betting you had either a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/25\/copying-repetition-zed-a-shaw\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Copying &#038; Repetition \u2013 Zed A. Shaw&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}