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On Friday, January 18, 2013 11:04:39 AM UTC-6, Rik 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.
>=20
> 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.
>
> 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.

Well anyone who is just blindly copying code to get through a CS course is =
obviously not a "natural" problem solver ,and thus, /incapable/ of becoming=
 a proficient programmer anyhow. Programming *IS* problem solving. If you d=
on't get any thrill from the hunt, you might as well go home and watch Mont=
y python until your eyes bleed or the next welfare check arrives.

But don't paint with too wide a brush on the copy-paste subject matter eith=
er because i have /no/ hesitation to copy paste when the code is mostly boi=
lerplate required by some asinine interface, like oh I dunno, WINDOWS GUI P=
ROGRAMMING!!! =E0=B2=A0_=E0=B2=A0. I am not about to invest one second /lea=
rning/ much less trying to /comprehend/ why someone would create and releas=
e such a gawd awful monstrosity.

Natural problem solvers always love a challenge and they always like to pee=
k under the hood and see what makes this or that "tick". You need no more t=
han to present these people with a problem and they *WILL* discover the ans=
wer (given enough time of course).=20

  "The only limit to an individuals imagination is his lifespan" --rr