D course material

[psychoticRabbit]

On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 12:39:24 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> Hi, folks!
>
> I’m testing waters for a D course at one University for first 
> time it’ll be an optional thing. It’s still discussed but may 
> very well become a reality.
>
> Before you ask - no, I’m not lecturing and in fact, I didn’t 
> suggest D in the first place! Academics are finally seeing 
> light in the gloom of 1 year OOP in C++ course having 
> underwhelming results.
>
> Now to the point, I remeber Chuck Allison (pardon if I 
> misspelled) doing D lectures at Utah Valley University, here:
> https://dconf.org/2014/talks/allison.html
>
> There is also Ali’s book. But anything else easily adoptable as 
> course material?
>
> —
> Dmitry Olshansky

Just make sure it involves problem solving because that is why we 
have brains.

We don't have brains so we can sit through long boring 
presentations and seminars.

Students who program, want to solve problems. Not boring silly 
problems, and not overly complex problems that will take up too 
much of their time - one of the biggest concerns expressed by 
students at my uni, is workload - which never seems to stop 
increasing. And students are really distracted these days too, so 
the problem is compounded. Our new is concerned about the 
increasing rop out rate too, which I suspect is related.

And don't make them all solve the same problem. Give a range of 
problems so they can select something that might interest them.

There's plenty of material out there, that deals with motivating 
students to learn.