Codecademy: Week 2: Class 3

Working intently

Today was my Wednesday's class 2nd week in the lab working on Codecademy. As with the other two classes on Monday and Tuesday, I had students who forgot the username and password they signed up with last week. I tell them to write it down, but they don't always listen. Still, most students were on the site and working intently.

I fielded several questions about lessons that I myself have not gotten up to yet so I definitely have to catch up. It is very important to me that I be able to help students with the code and if I don't know it, that is a problem for me. I want the students to feel confident in both me and in their ability to do the program. We still have some glitches, like laptops that don't display the site correctly, but it is easy to exchange one laptop for another since I have 20 of them now.

One other thing that was interesting is that I had one or two students who were on the wrong set of lessons. They went to "Make a Website" and I wanted them to learn "HTML & CSS" first, so I had to redirect them. They were disappointed as they had already done some of the lessons in the "Make a Website" module, but I told them it would not be a duplicate of what they had already done. Turns out "Make a Web site" is much harder than the "HTML & CSS" set of lessons.