Programming is a natural human behavior. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Have you ever planned a meeting? Written instructions for crocheting something? Sent a spouse on a shopping trip with a list? Given instructions to an employee? Given students a homework assignment?
Programming. Programming. Programming.
Humans equally carry out programs: conducting a meeting according to an agenda, crocheting something, shopping with a list, following your boss’s instructions, and completing a homework assignment.
The point of this lesson is to demystify the idea of programming. Everyone does it and anyone can do it.
Students will understand the difference between writing down instructions and following instructions written down by someone else.
Some are given in the student-facing chapter of the same name. No right answers. What at first seems to be a wrong answer is probably a teaching opportunity in disguise.