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Worked examples and instructional design
Before going on, try Activity 4.1.
Activity 4.1
- Have you ever had to do exercise problems in textbooks?
- Have you ever been stuck on one?
- Whom did you “blame”?
I once attempted to learn the rudiments of the programming language Prolog from textbooks. At one point I found myself reading a section that attempted to explain the concept of recursion and presented about half a dozen examples. As I read the section I felt that the concept was quite well explained and the examples seemed readily understandable. At the end of the section there were some exercise problems and so, with some confidence, I got a sheet of paper and had a go at the first one. I quickly discovered that I hadn’t a clue where to begin ...
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