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Unread 03-06-2012, 17:48
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Re: Teaching Help

Is there a specific reason the competition robot has to be in Java? If not it may be best to teach everyone C++ and use that as the competition robot language, both to lower the workload for yourself and to allow the students to better learn the language.

If some of the students already know a language you could have them help you in teaching the other members. In terms of splitting the languages of, I would try splitting the class between working a code and teaching them about the language and have one language be coding while you lecture the other. This seems like the best way to keep them separate from each other although the actual class may be a lot of work for you.