I have always felt it important to use meaningful names when programming.
To teach that to students, I remind them of the importance of their own names. It helps when you have a student with a significant name (last year one of my CS students had the same name as a famous athlete).
If worse comes to worse, I tell them why I named my dogs the names I did (Dulce is named “sweet” because she has a sweet face and because I want her to be sweet).
I also monitor students as they are programming with Lanschool and remind them as they are working that they need to use correct names if I see they are not.
Leave a Reply