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Stop with those complex examples while teaching programming

Uriel on June 12, 2019

At CódigoFacilito we've been teaching programming for over 8 years now, with hundreds of thousands of active students. Let's say you decided to le...
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Salcido Grijalva

Hi, Uriel!
Qué bueno es leer tu primer post aquí en dev.to (o al menos el primero que pude encontrar), ansioso de leer el siguente.

Saludos desde Sonora 🇲🇽

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Uriel

Gracias Salcido, aquí andamos para que no se nos olvide el inglés jaja.

Por aquí nos leemos

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anpos231

So I guess we caught a circle.
When I first started programming, I felt like all the examples given were just too simple to get a full image.
New they are just too complex I guess.

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Uriel

Well, that's part of how hard it's to teach, you have to find the middle ground between too complex or too simple.

It'll depend on what kind of resources you're choosing, some of them are popular for using unrealistic examples that are just easier than real ones, and some others just throw you into unnecessary concepts, complex analogies, etc.