2. Some theory in favor of multi-user environments as learning environments

2.3 The practical argument (Schneider)

The multi-purpose idea:

• We use this thing for communication & research anyhow, so let's use it to teach programming

• one can teach easy and more difficult programming matters, e.g. algorithms, object-oriented programming, software engineering, cgi-programming, networking, ...

• Moo programming is not easy, but still better than C or Perl

• you actually CAN do useful things with it (some objects that students programmed are of real use to others)

• I can debug students at distance, and they can get help from other persons and work easily together.

• Moo programming is quite fun. It's building something that has immediate effect and that you can show to others.

• Immediate effect (for simple programs)

• reusability of skills for practical purposes

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