Oh, ok, that’s annoying then. One of those cases where it feels like the person putting the course together has never actually interacted with children?
Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. The decision was made for us by school admins, NOT CS teachers. That’s why it was the stupid reason I had to learn Python.
Oh, I should clarify that. Teaching Python was decided for us by admins. The course material MAY have been designed by a teacher, but then also it may have been designed for Year 9 say. It’s inappropriate to be teaching it to Year 7 as a first proper programming language, but that’s what we had to do (otherwise then we would also have to make all our own resources to do it, and don’t forget at this point that I didn’t know how to program in Python myself yet! So yes, I had to use the already made resources, which had OOP in it).
Oh, ok, that’s annoying then. One of those cases where it feels like the person putting the course together has never actually interacted with children?
Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. The decision was made for us by school admins, NOT CS teachers. That’s why it was the stupid reason I had to learn Python.
Oh, I should clarify that. Teaching Python was decided for us by admins. The course material MAY have been designed by a teacher, but then also it may have been designed for Year 9 say. It’s inappropriate to be teaching it to Year 7 as a first proper programming language, but that’s what we had to do (otherwise then we would also have to make all our own resources to do it, and don’t forget at this point that I didn’t know how to program in Python myself yet! So yes, I had to use the already made resources, which had OOP in it).