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Re: Motivating Students

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Correcting a teacher on a lecture doesn't say anything as to the quality of the teacher. Frankly I prefer it when educators make mistakes, it demonstrates common traps and problems everyone has. Not only does it have a positive moral effect on me when I screw up too but it shows how best to recover or identify mistakes. A brief aside about mistakes. I screw up... no, I screw up a LOT. I take a very iterative approach to nearly every problem (this post has already been rewritten 3 times by this point). From failure I learn; Success... not so much. JVN always preaches that design is an iterative process but I think it goes beyond that, life is an iterative process. Never be afraid to screw up and have to rebuild because otherwise you won't accomplish anything of any value.
Just to expand on this a little... a coworker was telling me the other day that your average programmer will introduce 1 bug for every 13 lines of code he writes. An excellent programmer can stretch that to 1 bug per 20 lines of code. When I thought on this to a recently completed assignment (~300 lines of code, with ~2500 lines of unit tests and ~30 integration level tests), I realized how right he was. Thus far, no bugs in this area of code have been discovered in our software builds because of all the testing I did before delivering the code... but that testing caused many rounds of iteration and bug fixes - a vital skill best learned early in your programming career.

Screwing up is part of the game. Iterating, testing, and analyzing your failures separates the great from the average.
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