[Edu-sig] Re: Encouraging students to plan

[Jeff Sandys]

I have asked the students to do a storyboard frame, a 
picture and short discription of what the program or 
sub-program is intended to do.  It should list the 
inputs, outputs and actions.  When a student asks me 
a question the first thing I ask to see is their plan.

when advanced students do projects for teachers, I ask 
them to write a contract, or oppertunity evaluation in 
P+ terms.  This is just an informal statement of what 
the program should do.  Then they do the storyboards.

I am currently doing this with Logo and plan to 
continue using the same process with Python.

Thanks,
Jeff Sandys

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