{"id":877,"date":"2009-06-19T15:48:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T15:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/cutting-and-pasting-or-life-is-an-open-book-test\/"},"modified":"2009-06-19T15:48:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T15:48:51","slug":"cutting-and-pasting-or-life-is-an-open-book-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/cutting-and-pasting-or-life-is-an-open-book-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting and Pasting — Or Life is an Open Book Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m obviously behind in my reading.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Quoted from http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/alfredth\/archive\/2009\/06\/13\/real-life-is-an-open-book-test.aspx<\/cite>:<\/p>\n

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Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson : Real Life Is An Open Book Test <\/a><\/p>\n


\nI 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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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}