Allison Parrishhey mastodon, throw all your programming pedagogy links at me. I teach a lot of beginner programmers and I want to get better at it!
specifically the trouble I have is getting beginners from the "I understand the syntax and can modify examples" stage to the "I can model problems as programs and apply my knowledge of the language to build these programs" stage. the first stage is pretty easy and most tutorials for beginners are oriented toward that kind of literacy... the second is harder to achieve and harder to teach, and it seems like most people only reach that stage with self-directed practice
Fritzy 🌯@aparrish Our brains are pattern machines, so that is how we learn at first. Finding patterns, adjusting them, etc. Modeling problems as programs in your head takes time, but I bet it could take less time if we pointed out that that was the goal. Some people like thinking of codes as layers, and that can help, but it's a middle step.