[Tutor] Re: Highlighting instructions: pedagogical preferences

André Roberge andre.roberge at gmail.com
Mon Apr 25 22:17:41 CEST 2005


Alan Gauld  wrote:  (and Kent Johnson agrees :-)
[snip]
> Its conventional to take the second option - it allows the student
> to examine the highlighted line before it operates. The alternative
> could be confusing if, for example you jump into a function.
> 
[snip]
> think it's a good idea. Have you seen the Tcl tutor that you can
> download, it has 3 levels and is very good IMHO.
> 
> Alan G.
> 
Thanks for the pointer.  I just downloaded it.  It does look good.

However, I'll stick to Python for now :-)

André



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