Teach me your ways, how do make a programming class work?

[Bill]

Lots of ideas in this thread:

Thoughts on developing and running a class

While helping several teachers-to-be develop electronics classes, I throw out quite a few suggestions. I’ve been asked to make a list which follows. Some items may be controversial. I look forward to your view. Let’s be civil and expand this thread into a list of additional things that we think is useful in developing and running a class. Much of this, like slide presentation info, may not apply to other areas. I hope some thoughts here may be helpful. When you are ready to submit a class…

The Education Committee will be outfitting a computer lab, probably in the classroom formerly known as 3D Fab, with computers having commonly used software already installed so that classes can be taught without students having to bring their own and installing and configuring things before the class.

Your requirements appear to be specialized and is unlikely to be covered. You may want to consider something like Docker to make it easy for students to install a working toolset.