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On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:04:39 -0800 (PST)
Rik <rik.j.cross@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

None of the good teachers I ever had blamed the students for not learning.
The teacher's challenge is to figure out how to get all those minds to learn.
It ain't easy. 

> 
> 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 :)

Right, that's a better assignment to give them.

> 
> Thanks for the comments.


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