I’m obviously behind in my reading.
My favorite saying is that programming is all about cutting and pasting and the good programmers know which code to paste. I have my students copy the code out of our book, code I write, etc. I honestly feel I would be dishonest if I didn’t since that’s the way I’ve always programmed.
Oh, sure, there are times I write original code — I’ve been doing a ton of that showing examples of Alice code to my middle school students, at the same time, I expect them to copy and use my ideas — and my co-teacher copies my code in front of them.
Quoted from http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2009/06/13/real-life-is-an-open-book-test.aspx:
I don’t remember when I first heard someone say “real life is an open book test” but it really stopped me on my feet one day. It also influenced me as a teacher.
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