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Unplugged Activity: Relay Programming
Relay programming is an extremely fun lesson
that gets across way more than computer science. So sometimes
everybody's getting a little bit antsy and you want to get them up on their feet.
This is a great way to add some excitement to computer science.
So you break everyone up into two groups where they stand in a line.
and they run relay style. The first person
in each group runs to the other side of the room
where you have a graph paper drawing and a blank piece of paper waiting for them.
They write down the first step to creating that
image, run back to their line, tag the next player who
goes back up to write the next step.
This is a great way to get across the idea
have debugging, needing to proofread your own work
and needing to check the work of the people done before you.
You quickly understand how important it is to make sure that you are
careful in your coding when a whole team is depending on you.