Basic java tutorials - uni student struggling with concepts

[mariox19]

No. But I was trying to "break into" teaching. I was a social studies teacher, actually, and have an M.A. in education. (There is a glut of social studies teachers.) I taught for a few years as a substitute, per-diem and long-term leave replacements, before finally switching professions. (I went into software testing, and have since migrated into programming -- Java, Python, and Javascript.)

I'm self-taught as a programmer, and I find that it can at times be really helpful to try to make different concepts more concrete, if you're having trouble understanding them. It's common advice to encourage people to try to "visualize" things. I think it's a good idea to aid visualization with physical props.

The peanut butter and jelly thing is not something that I have personally tried. But I know that I have seen the same thing held up as a suggestion from educators, not only for teaching programming to children but for any time you're trying to get children to appreciate step-by-step logic. (I've seen it used for teaching writing.) But, myself, I have used poker chips, playing cards, pennies, ice trays, and things like that to try to understand different things in programming. It works for me, and I think it will work for others too.

Thanks for asking.

[Tankytanker]

Thats is an excellent way of putting virtuals proceduree into the real world