How can I teach a know-it-all beginner programmer?

Posted by Liran Orevi on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Liran Orevi
Published on 2009-05-15T12:08:28Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 7:53 UTC
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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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