Injecting elements of design ideas into lessons

[jdonwells]

Since going through this class last year I have been thinking about adding elements of design and how to do that to my lectures. In Unit 1 for example I have 4 different designs of the knock knock joke to show them and contract. Slide show here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10oBn4O0cejbJYgI0Vif7a0vsUq7idEXRH8VWEW15twI/edit#slide=id.gef40bc63e8_0_0

For Unit 2 I am going to show a less obvious way to nest loops; by not doing it. I will let them struggle for a day on the Yellow Brick Road. The next day I will show them this slide show: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bUtaOFlrY33cQ3ZiHHIqfW_uXGcjnSrlIK5DQk7ydEs/edit#slide=id.p1 The hope is they will submit a solution that looks like this: https://snap.berkeley.edu/snap/snap.html#present:Username=jdonwells&ProjectName=Lab%202.2%20Yellow%20Brick%20Road%20Best%20Solution

The goal of this additional content, which you should feel free to use, is to introduce concepts that will be important when they get to the Python section of the class.