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Re: What New FIRST Programmers should be taught
1. Lucky You. I have taught FLL kids Mindstorms, and that was fun.
2. I will teach some freshmen LabVIEW next year. I do not know how many.
3. Start with the basics, and see how far they can go with that before introducing more advanced topics (especially classes and pointers). They will learn from experience, so having something to program (not necessarily a cRio, you can run Java code on your computer too) helps them. I have found that the easiest way to learn a language is to solve a problem, as this requires more thought then just throwing down some code for the purpose of learning the syntax. They will then learn where each object is most useful, how it can be used, etc. while thinking through the problem.
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