I am currently in high school and am one of those "self-taught whiz kids" who has learned such languages as HTML (I do not consider this a real programming language now as even the most remedial person can learn it), C/C++, JAVA, and am ccurrently learning Perl. I have also attended many courses offered by my high school on programming and computers and from my experience I can tell you this:

1) It is important that he does not show that he does not know his subject
2) It is also important that he answers ALL of the questions asked by the kids
3) And lastly he should tell them that if anybody in here would like to correct me they can

And I know a lot of self-taught programmers in my school and we always find that teachers who show that they do not know their subject will be often ridiculed by all the kids, even those who have never had any previous experience with the language


Majin

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