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[[Benjamin Mako Hill]] gave all three of the two-hour morning lectures. All of the lectures involved the teacher working through material in the interactive Python interpreter shown on a projector with students following along in a Python interpretor on their own computers. In general, the lectures were rated well received by students.
Concern with the lectures include
* Two hours of straight lecture of difficult material was
* If students
* There were often more mentors than really needed in the morning sessions meaning that many mentors were often idle.
* As the lectures progressed and the work and tasks became more complex, working in the interactive interpreter become increasingly difficult — particularly for
To address these concerns, we
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* Record the lectures so that students can catch up after the
* Arrange for some mentors to arrive after noon if they
* Upload not only the outline, but examples of all of the code
* Switch into writing code in separate files and running those files much earlier — perhaps as soon as we hit more than 2-3 lines in a `for` loop in Session 1
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