Thread: New Computer App teacher looking for help

What books would be useful for me, and what software would I need?

I would highly...highly recommend.
Problem Solving with C++ The Object of Programming by Walter Savitch
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...books&n=507846
It also comes with the Student Edition of Visual C++ 6.0 (you would want to update that edition on the CD with the latest service pack download from microsoft.com).

It not only teaches you how to program, but it also teaches the theory and how things are working in the background. But it is never too much information at once, very well paced. Plenty of examples and every example code in the book comes on a CD ready to run or tweak yourself.


I tried learning to program for years on my own, but I could never find a book with enough information, or vice versa it had too much information, they never “flowed” right, and where just hard to read. I finally decided to take programming in College, this was the text book and I was like “wow, I wish I had tried this book before I put out all this money”. Even though I would still take the class( counts as my foreign language).

But would there be another programming option that I could teach them?

To tie that into your next question about web design.
HTML creation in raw form (not using a program to do everything) is considered programming. Learning syntax and how to apply it. I suspect you would also find it easier to keep them interested in that since it would be “cool” to have their own website.

http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp


Good luck.

Originally Posted by Enahs

To tie that into your next question about web design.
HTML creation in raw form (not using a program to do everything) is considered programming.

HTML creation is not programming. It is word processing.

All right, I'm definitely holding off on the certification for now. $150 for each test? I'm a teacher! I don't have that kind of money

Really the certification just sounds like something I'm not ready for. But I think I could learn C++ quickly if the need arises.

Thanks for all the input!

My advice is don't teach it.
Even after you learn the fundamentals it is a different level to teach it without a couple years experience using it. Don't short change your students!

Originally Posted by Rashakil Fol

HTML creation is not programming. It is word processing.

http://dictionary.reference.com/sear...%20programming
"n : creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do something"

That is what HTML code does. I did not claim it is as hard/usefull/in depth/the same kind of programming as C++. But I would still consider it programming (if you do it in a text editor).