battis.net » refactoring http://battis.net ...and I'm all out of bubble gum. Sun, 08 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Multiple Intelligences About Coding http://battis.net/2008/03/23/multiple-intelligences-about-coding/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=multiple-intelligences-about-coding http://battis.net/2008/03/23/multiple-intelligences-about-coding/#comments Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:55:23 +0000 Seth Battis http://battis.net/blog/2008/03/23/multiple-intelligences-about-coding/
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]]> Having just struck upon the similarities between Pink’s six new senses and Gardner’s multiple intelligences, I continue to be fascinated by examples of folks employing these ideas in creative ways: enter Basildon Coder, recently highlighted on Slashdot for describing a Wodehouse-ian approach to code refactoring. As always, I look at this and start to ponder how to use it in the classroom with my students: one of the real challenges that my students face is not the development of new code (although that is challenging) but figuring out how to use a body of code written by someone else (me, their classmates, some godawful Windows GDI API, etc.). I have been struck by the difficulty my students have faced this year in grasping the 50,000 foot view of coding — perhaps a visual representation like this might be a first step. Sort of a Powers of 10 for programming.

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