Yesterday I had a situation where several students were playing
catch up after absences and the rest of the class had finished a
programming exercise sooner than I had expected. It’s always
nice being ahead of schedule but it brings up questions.
Especially if some students are not up with everyone else. So I
asked my students to get creative with the exercise. I asked
them to add something to the project beyond the assignment and
left the definition of something up to them. I did suggest that
making single line if blocks into multiple line blocks would be
on possible option. And that is where it got interesting.
Several students did start making multi-line code blocks which
was just fine by me. I am happy to see them get more experience
with nested if statement which we just covered (its week two of
the semester). other students started experimenting a bit more
though. One student discovered how to create menus in the GUI
(we’re programming using C#, WPF and Visual Studio). I told him
that if he prepared a l