[CONTENT] Pacing: introducting 'classes'

[cedar-debater]

Location

Chapter/Section: 5.1 Objects and classes - What are objects? & What are classes?

Type of issue

• Typo/grammar
• Factual accuracy
• Pedagogy/sequence (teaches too early/late)
• Accessibility (alt text, contrast, keyboard nav)
• Formatting/layout
• Broken link / reference

Description

you literally only just talked about

• attributes
• behaviours

and haven't linked to actual implemetation yet (instance attributes / methods)
it's not time to immediately bring in all of

• dunder init
• multidocstrings
• self
• assigning to self
• mutating self

in a code example.

(also I can't find where it talks about getting instance attributes but idk if that's needed so um)

Proposed fix (optional)

actually build from the ground up eg

class SimpleClass:
    """This is a docstring"""
    def __init__(self):
        """self is the SimpleClass object"""

i mean im not too sure how to word it but you get the idea i hope

Syllabus mapping (optional)

No response

Screenshots / references (optional)

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Checklist

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• I provided enough context to locate and fix the issue

[cedar-debater]

btw i am literally forced by the interface to assign someone for some reason so-

[Eatham532]

Yes i agree. A lot of places around have code blocks to explain things. However, i also belive it is important for students to learn how to learn from reading other people's code.

All programming languages have the same basic principles (for the most part) the only difference is syntax. Here, we want to teach what classes are, why we want to use them, how to use them, how not to use them, etc. Teach the basics of what the generic term 'class' is, and then show how we can tell the computer the festures of this 'class'.

Also, i want the issues to default to assigning me right now. Im the only one on this project. Dont worry about it. And thanks for all the feedback!

I havent really had much time after exams. Have also been working on another side project haha. Will try to come back soon to review contemt.