How Should I Teach a Basic Programming Course?

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riverman writes "I have been 'provisioned' at the school where I work to teach a new Computer Science/Programming course. I'm supposed to be teaching everything from the very-very basics (i.e. where that myspace thing is in your computer monitor, and how it knows who your friends are) to the easy-advanced (i.e. PHP classes and Python/Google App Engine). I'm an experienced programmer, but I'm not sure where to start — I could easily assume that my students know something basic they don't. Are there any resources on the internet that could help me find a solid curriculum? What are your suggestions?" I'm sure many of us have gone through intro-level programming courses of some sort; what are some things your teacher or professor did that worked well, and what didn't work at all?http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/11/1338250 (http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/11/1338250&from=rss)
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