Proper Tutorial

[gnibbles]

Hello all. Im trying to teach a group of young programmers the main basics. I have a lot of little tutorials but they are so broad and sparatic that it confuses more than helps. Is there a good site that gives good examples to follow? Also I want to implement a good example for them to get external data from an external source whether it be via USB/Comm/Ethernet. My teaching experience is nil when it comes to programming so any help would be great.

Thanks in advance.

gnibbles

 

[Bluejay07]

Hello,

If you have access to Visual Studio 2005, there is a section called 'Getting Started'. Within this section, you can click "Create Your First Application".

This was created by Microsoft as a textual guide to orient users to the Environment.

I found many sections to be useful and informative.

 

[Qamgine]

When you are preparing to teach your students, you need to ensure that you completely understand everything yourself and that you are following the correct structured programming guidelines. Otherwise you are setting up the students to do things the wrong way which can cause confusion or problems for them later on.

The first step to programming is understanding the logic behind it. Anyone can put code on the screen. Not everyone truly can understand the logic that goes into it.

Logic was the very first class I ever took (many years ago) when I started programming.

 

[gnibbles]

Yeah Ive done a lot of programming courses and I understand all the programming concepts and why what does what but I have trouble coming up with good ideas for example projects. All they need to know for what the end result is the basics. There arent a whole lot of tutorials for example projects that I can find. Either that or there are too many and its hard to choose the basic ones from the more advanced because it all looks easy to me hehehe.

Thanks

gnibbles

 

[Qamgine]

A very simplistic program would be to create an interface that utilizes an OpenFileDialog to select a small text box, display the path in a textbox and display the contents of the file in a mutliline textbox.

It's nice because you have to teach them logic to verify that the file exists, pull the data, utilize a streamreader, and ensure that they clean up with the file when they are done.

 

[gnibbles]

Thanks. Funny not long after I posted this I found a small project/tutorial that did just that.

gnibbles