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Moonside wrote

Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in I'm doing a big programming group project with four other undergrads by twovests

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.

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twovests OP wrote

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

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Moonside wrote

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:

  1. Stops communicating when she had problems
  2. the general lack of guts to just try out things
  3. 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.
  4. Didn't habitually compile/test/see whether software worked and fix problems or annotate them if unfixed.
  5. 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.

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