[sounddust]

A very important and effective technique in teaching others (regardless of the subject) is to never write or display something that's wrong, because it's often the only thing a student will remember. This is obvious when it comes to language, but it applies to pretty much anything.

[chc]

Is that better or worse than not teaching anything because your student couldn't pick out the 10 lines of actual functionality among the 100 lines of paranoiaplate in each example?