Re: need assingment to teach

Richard Heathfield <rjh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Ben Bacarisse said:

Richard Heathfield <rjh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Scudder Consulting said:

vikram Bhuskute <vikramb11@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1189315320.763954.116490@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

I have plans to train some students for C in coming weeks.
I am badly looking for C programming assignments fot them.
Need 1) lots of them per topiic 2) Should be doable for beginners

Oh great, another of the clueless wants to teach.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. [...]

I waited a while, to calm down, after reading this but even now, when
calm, I think it needs a comment.

If that is the first time you have encountered the above comment (in the
precise form into which you have truncated it), you need to get out
more.

Of course I have heard it. I was surprised to read such a remark
repeated by you.

It is a well-known saying which I merely extended in a way which
wrapped around to encompass *everybody*, not just teachers. Whether you
noticed that, I cannot tell, but I suspect you may not have done.

I noticed. It made it no more humorous nor less rude.

You may have had bad experiences of
all of all your teachers but it is patently false in almost all cases
for simple tasks (e.g. reading)

Reading is *not* a simple task.
<snip essay on reading>
Teaching programming is a trivial task compared to that of teaching
reading,

So in your view I have the complexity of reading an programming
reversed. OK, fine. (I don't agree but I can't see any point in
debating that here.) What does that have to do with my example?
Reading is the obvious counter example. That it is often taught badly
in neither here not there. If it were always taught badly precisely
because it was always taught by people who "can't" (read), then you
would have a case.

and yet it is often done very badly indeed. I truly hope that
your programming teachers were exceptions. Most of mine weren't.

The quality of the teaching is not at issue. Had you said that
programming often badly taught, I'd have agreed!

I spent the majority of my working life forcing a smile at people who
crack that remark when they hear that I taught. The other half of the
time its the one about how nice it must be to be on holiday half the
year.

--
Ben.
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