You sure that's not better than how I learned computer programming in HS, with a teacher slowly, confusedly read-learning a textbook to us as we wrote VisualBasic programs to calculate how much paint to put on walls?
psst, rename high school computer science classes “video game design.” students create their own game, starting with story work. build to coding, contextually, for game design as needed. congrats, you now have a nation of engineers.
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Actually this strategy could backfire; video game development is not entry level. Its difficulty would scare them away.
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I think even better would be iOS and Android classes. Students would be able to see something cool on their phone the first day of class.
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Also plausible: nobody wants to make or play video games ever again. Could go either way...
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If so we should probably stop teaching English lest we quash the spirit of potential writers / it might just be too risky to run the experiment and see what happens..
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Yes! Exactly how I learned. :)
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I have mixed feelings on this. Yes it a great way to lure people in but it would have to be simple. And yet not too simple. I started by writing silly choose-your-own adventures at home. Luckily my high school had legitimate teachers of Basic and Pascal to go further.
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Yes congrats to that nation. And students it really is a individual nation of your if you can see it
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