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Re: how to teach the newbies to program?
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Originally Posted by Bharat Nain
In the first week, I taught them how to write C program and some of the
"stuff". Second week- I finished teaching them how to write C(Only for robots). This week I'm going to get into how robots and their electricals and after that how to actually program robots. IF you know C, you can teach it to anyone. Just try to put yourself in their position and you will know what to say or how to go about it.
You make it sound easy. I learned C after knowing a few other languages; I don't actually remember not knowing how to program!

Fortunately, my school has a Intro to Comp Sci course and an AP Comp Sci, so I have something to draw from. The only issue is that the course is in Java, a far cry from PIC C. Any suggestions for this particular class of people? (Besides not letting them touch the robot until I'm sure that they're could won't segfault.)