https://www.elearningworld.org/code/ For the online learning world Thu, 23 Jul 2020 18:13:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.elearningworld.org/code/#comment-818 Fri, 05 Jul 2019 21:02:10 +0000 https://www.elearningworld.org/?p=6585#comment-818 Thanks Stuart :). As with learning to program as a specific element, the barriers to learning itself from a personal point of view are fear and time. But I agree about the learning curve with computing, that’s what can induce the fear. There is not really a middle ground but rather a whole amount of knowledge that you need to acquire in order to make the climb. And simply having the time to spend to acquire that knowledge can be an issue. There is still lots I want to learn like Android development, which even though I understand Java, finding the time has been problematic!

]]> https://www.elearningworld.org/code/#comment-789 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 01:35:03 +0000 https://www.elearningworld.org/?p=6585#comment-789 Great post Gareth !
As a self-taught programmer (well, limited to HTML, CSS, and SQL) I’m over the ‘fear factor’ – but have very real limits in my knowledge.
Scratch is cool – a great recommendation.
I find myself ‘stalling’ at PHP though – as a non-programmer the learning curve gets quite steep, quite quickly.
But I think most people can learn ‘snippets and editing’ at a basic level – which is a very useful skill with Moodle – because the code is right there for you to later 🙂

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