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Re: Beginner Tutorials

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Date Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:44:21 +0100
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Still a student myself and even if you really want to become good at what
you're doing, some days one just feels lazy and in the mood for
copy/pasting to get the job done quickly xD
I like the site, will check it out ;)


On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Rik <rik.j.cross@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The reason for disabling right-click has nothing to do with protecting
>> content, and everything to do with stopping my students from taking the
>> lazy way out.
>>
>> Given the chance, they'll copy/paste the code and download the designs
>> and edit them slightly. They'd get through the tutorials in about 25
>> minutes and have learnt next to nothing.
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> Ha Ha! that is hilarious.  I haven't been a student for a while.  I guess
> I am naive to think that young people would be interested, and take
> pleasure in becoming proficient rather than just a quick way to get a
> better grade.
>
>>
>> In talking to students about existing resources, they said that blindly
>> copying code didn't really help them get a deep understanding of algorithms
>> and how to apply them to other problems.
>>
>> In the password-protected solutions i will provide downloads to source
>> code, etc, and any student smart enough to get around my protection
>> probably understands python basics :)
>>
>> Thanks for the comments.
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>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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> --
> Joel Goldstick
> http://joelgoldstick.com
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> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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Ritchie Flick

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Beginner Tutorials Rik <rik.j.cross@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 06:47 -0800
  Re: Beginner Tutorials marco.kretz@jobmensa.de - 2013-01-18 07:53 -0800
  Re: Beginner Tutorials Virgil Stokes <vs@it.uu.se> - 2013-01-18 16:52 +0100
    Re: Beginner Tutorials Rik <rik.j.cross@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 08:55 -0800
    Re: Beginner Tutorials Rik <rik.j.cross@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 08:55 -0800
  Re: Beginner Tutorials Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 11:35 -0500
    Re: Beginner Tutorials Rik <rik.j.cross@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 09:04 -0800
      Re: Beginner Tutorials Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 12:34 -0500
      Re: Beginner Tutorials Ritchie Flick <xenplex@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 18:44 +0100
      Re: Beginner Tutorials rh <richard_hubbe11@lavabit.com> - 2013-01-18 11:14 -0800
      Re: Beginner Tutorials Kwpolska <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 20:20 +0100
        Re: Beginner Tutorials Kwpolska <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2013-01-19 12:46 +0100
      Re: Beginner Tutorials Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 17:25 -0800
        Re: Beginner Tutorials Evan Driscoll <driscoll@cs.wisc.edu> - 2013-01-18 22:36 -0600
          Re: Beginner Tutorials Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 22:22 -0800
          Re: Beginner Tutorials Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 22:22 -0800
      Re: Beginner Tutorials Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 17:25 -0800
    Re: Beginner Tutorials Rik <rik.j.cross@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 09:04 -0800
  Re: Beginner Tutorials Ian Foote <ian@feete.org> - 2013-01-18 16:35 +0000
  Re: Beginner Tutorials Ian Foote <ian@feete.org> - 2013-01-18 16:44 +0000
    Re: Beginner Tutorials Rik <rik.j.cross@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 09:16 -0800
    Re: Beginner Tutorials Rik <rik.j.cross@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 09:16 -0800

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