Juliet's Tutoring Blog

Teaching courses at the college level has taught me that one teaching style does not fit all students. In a college course environment, however, an instructor cannot always stop in the middle of a class to re-frame a lesson to suit the students who just aren't getting the topic. With one-on-one tutoring or even small group tutoring, a tutor has the opportunity to present a topic, check if the student(s) "get it", and if not, try a different approach to the topic on the spot. Tutoring means not going strictly by a syllabus but instead meeting the needs of the student, varying the material and...

Why would failure ever be a good thing? Well, in computer programming, failure can mean that you have done a good job testing your code and you have found a bug. Finding a bug during testing means that you can fix your bug before you submit your project or assignment to your boss or your teacher. In the process of fixing the bug, you might realize how to improve other parts of the code as well. Without thorough testing, with a possible failure or two along the way, you cannot be confident that your code will do what it is supposed to do.

So, how do you go about testing? One way is to think...