Questions tagged [teaching]
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Trying to teach a high school student Dynamic Memory Allocation - what are the best ways to do so?
Copied from stack overflow due to feedback
So I want to teach someone how to do dynamic memory allocation using the block padding model. What that means is every memory block is prefixed and ...
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Why do textbooks use pseudocode rather than real languages?
In colleges and in algorithm textbooks, it is quite common for the teacher and author to explain control flow in pseudo-code. With the advent of more expressive languages like Python and Haskell among ...
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How can I deal with the cargo-cult programming attitude?
I have some computer science students in a compulsory introductory programming course who see a programming language as a set of magic spells, which must be cast in order to achieve some effect (...
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University teaches DOS-style C++, how to deal with it [closed]
I had been programming for many years but wanted a diploma to make myself more employable. Having already been through university once, I didn't choose a full 5 year computer science major but a ...
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Should I teach my students alloca? [closed]
How widely used is alloca in the real world? Should I teach my students to use alloca when it makes sense? Or should I teach them never to use it? Coming from a C++ RAII background, the idea of not ...
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Tutoring students who are struggling with the basics in C++ [closed]
I am tutoring a few students who are having significant trouble learning the basics of their first programming language: C++. I have known many excellent and bright students who have failed or dropped ...
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How can I teach a bright person, with no programming experience, how to program? [closed]
I have been asked to take a person in our IT department who has no programming experience but is a smart and capable person and help him move into programming at lets say an entry level developer ...
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30 minutes to explain programming to a 15 year old [closed]
I've been volunteered to sit down and talk about the life and work of a Developer with a 15 year old work experience student next week.
The catches are that
I've got just half an hour, and
I'll be ...
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How would you explain multi threading to a seven year old kid?
If you have to explain the concept of multi-threading to a seven year old kid how would you do it? I recently got this question in an interview. I came up with a story using jobs (the task to be done) ...
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How to find a programming mentor? [closed]
I decided to learn programming. I've been reading SO for few days, and I think I will start with C++, as I read some articles. I am aware of loops, arrays, program logic and objects a little and I ...
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How do I explain to non-programers what .NET is? [closed]
I don't work at a software company, and I'm one of a small handful of people in the company that know anything about programming. I spend a lot of time automating other programs that are used in the ...
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How to teach Exception Handling for New Programmers? [closed]
How do you go about teaching Exception Handling to Programmers. All other things are taught easily - Data Structures, ASP.NET, WinForms, WPF, WCF - you name it, everything can be taught easily.
With ...
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