Thanks for the feedback. In my case, most likely, the participants will be around 16-22 years old, no particular specialisation but curious about programming.
-- Yury Bulka https://mamot.fr/@setthemfree #NotOnFacebook John Clements <[email protected]> writes: > My opinion: it depends on lots of things, but I think the biggest one is the > makeup of your audience. If they’re (say) a bunch of retired accountants that > are passionate about understanding how programs work and have lots of time to > follow up after your sessions and possibly some “office hours” after the > fact, I think you might “click” with ten to twenty percent of them. > > This probably goes without saying, but in three sessions, you’re not going to > be building expertise; you’re (hopefully) going to be building the excitement > and laying the foundation for them to learn on their own. > > All just my opinions, of course! > > John > >> On Dec 12, 2020, at 04:15, Yury Bulka <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Dear Racket community, >> >> I'm wondering whether any guidelines / methodology exist out there on >> using Racket and/or the student languages as a learning environment in a >> workshop context (specifically aimed at introducing non-programmers to >> programming and problem solving in a HTDP spirit). >> >> The idea of such a hypothetical workshop is to have two or three >> sessions with a small group (5-7 participants), and to reach a point in >> the end where they are comfortable with reasoning about the how a >> program evaluates and how to use functions to encapsulate simple >> problems and solutions, possibly in this 5-step process: >> http://htdp.org/2020-8-1/Book/part_preface.html#%28counter._%28figure._fig~3athe-design-recipe%29%29 >> >> Is this too ambitious plan at all? Does it require _way_ more time or is >> it doable? >> >> Thank you for any thoughts, >> -- >> Yury Bulka >> https://mamot.fr/@setthemfree >> #NotOnFacebook >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Racket Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/878sa3cj9q.fsf%40privacyrequired.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/87y2i2byqi.fsf%40privacyrequired.com.
