hollyhoppet wrote on February 17, 2018 at 6:05 AM (edited on February 17, 2018 at 6:06 AM)

i don't have any valuable input but just wanted to say you're braver than i was in school trying to do anything but Just Survive bad group members lol

Moonside wrote on February 17, 2018 at 8:14 AM

I spent more time tutoring my Very Bad project pair than coding my own parts, she regrettably had some major fear of programming despite being on the course.

twovests OP wrote on February 17, 2018 at 5:59 PM

Ahhh that's a Bad Time; what was the fear of programming like for her? Anxiety when starting projects?

Moonside wrote on February 17, 2018 at 11:26 PM

Now I can finally put my Undertale knowledge into use: she was a lot like Alphys good ending run (except Alphys was actually supercompetent in-story unlike the present person I'm talking about). Some problems:

Stops communicating when she had problems
the general lack of guts to just try out things
All or nothing thinking when it came to implementation. I think that coders mostly implement one thing at a time, see if it works/compiles/passes the test and move on to the next thing and learn from the experience and apply it to further cases. This was totally absent. I think she tried to figure it out all in her head and if she felt any uncertainty, she just didn't try to code.
Didn't habitually compile/test/see whether software worked and fix problems or annotate them if unfixed.
Couldn't read official documentation Java had.

Honestly I'd say it was mostly a series of emotional issues more than anything else. You can't learn coding if you fear compiler/test feedback and trying out things and fall apart when things don't work.