SOFT6008 Review of the Week

I asked students to complete the coins exercise.

The main thing I wanted to achieve this week was to get students back into programming and to get them used to debugging in JavaScript. Many students struggled, but got there in the end.

However a number of students seem to be determined that when faced with a programming problem the first port of call is someone else's solution.  This is not how people learn to program.  There is no alternative to actually taking the time and actually doing the work.  The sooner these students realise this, the sooner they will make real progress.

I expect the coins exercise to be completed by Monday.