{"id":4550,"date":"2016-04-14T17:59:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T22:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=4550"},"modified":"2016-04-14T18:02:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T23:02:24","slug":"top-3-code-teaching-learning-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2016\/top-3-code-teaching-learning-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 3 Code Teaching \/ Learning Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-202\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.studioweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/sql-badge.png\" alt=\"SQL code training badge\" width=\"30%\" height=\"30%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To get the best outcomes with students (and yourself!), here are my top 3 code teaching tips:<\/p>\n<p>1- Write real code, not &#8216;lego&#8217; code.<br \/>\n2- Use real coding tools, not code simulators.<br \/>\n3- Build real projects from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Write real code, not &#8216;lego&#8217; code<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A funny thing happens when students write real code: they start to learn not only how to code, but they learn the concepts behind the code. What I&#8217;ve seen over the years is that trying to hide the code from students with block based code teaching tools slows the learning process.<\/p>\n<p>You have to write code to learn to code.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.studioweb.com\/2016\/03\/06\/top-3-code-teaching-tips\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-202\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.studioweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/sql-badge.png\" alt=\"SQL code training badge\" width=\"30%\" height=\"30%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To get the best outcomes with students (and yourself!), here are my top 3 code teaching tips:<\/p>\n<p>1- Write real code, not &#8216;lego&#8217; code.<br \/>\n2- Use real coding tools, not code simulators.<br \/>\n3- Build real projects from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Write real code, not &#8216;lego&#8217; code<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A funny thing happens when students write real code: they start to learn not only how to code, but they learn the concepts behind the code. What I&#8217;ve seen over the years is that trying to hide the code from students with block based code teaching tools slows the learning process.<\/p>\n<p>You have to write code to learn to code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,9,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4550"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4557,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions\/4557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}