[rafael859]

What prior knowledge does your student have?

In my experience, what helped me the most when starting to learn how to code was having a motivating problem that I wanted to solve. Why do I care what a for-loop is if I can't see how it is even helpful? Many tutorials have examples when teaching, but I believe that the problem should come first, and act as the glue between the basic ideas that will be introduced. Then, the mentor's most important role is to guide the student through best practices, such as style and performance.

[moveax]

His father is a coder too and he is making a specific IT school here. So he comes with basic knowledge about data structures, databases and how code is build.

Yeah, real world problems are what my favorite way to teach particular ways of building things. No one wants to build the 7th calculator.

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