How can I teach a know-it-all beginner programmer?
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I need to teach a teenage beginner programmer (private tutoring style). The problem is that despite their poor knowledge and skills, they are sure of their abilities, to the point where I find it hard to teach them "better ways".
What's the best way to tackle this?
Just to be clear what I'm talking about:
- Constantly changing between tools/IDEs/libraries when it's tough.
- Blind certainty that really bad designs are really very good.
- Copying and pasting from the Internet, without understanding the code, and "marking" it as a project.
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