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Udacity: Inside Udacity: Developing Intro to Programming
Hi, I’m Sara! I work at Udacity as a course manager, meaning I’m often on the Udacity end of the conversation when students check in with questions about our courses. I’ve also recently donned a course developer hat, meaning I work with Professor Cay Hortsmann and Cheng-Han Lee to develop our new Intro to Programming course. Developing a course at Udacity is pretty exciting. It generally goes like this: Brainstorming, scripting & writing sample codeInitially, Cheng-Han, Cay, and I brainstorm cool examples of things you can program, like drawing a graph of your friends. Next, we write lesson scripts and test out all the example code. Filming When we film the videos, I always find that the code has a mind of its own. I plan some mistakes so students can see the process of reasoning about bugs, but sometimes I make new mistakes while filming. I guess those ones will be more authentic :) Recognizing and fixing bugs is a critical skill. Bugs are a constant…