Every problem, the same 6 steps.
Beginners freeze because they don't know where to start. So every worked problem in the course — and every practice problem — is solved with the exact same six-step routine. Repetition turns it into a reflex.
Read & understand
Restate the task in your own words and pin down exactly what's coming in and what must go out.
Calculate by hand
Do one tiny example on paper. A concrete case turns an abstract problem into something you can see.
Human way + key observation
How would you solve it by hand? Name the one fact that quietly makes the whole problem simple.
Fast enough?
Roughly how many steps for the biggest input? A single pass over the data is plenty at this level.
Frame it
Write the skeleton as plain-English comments first — the plan — before a single line of real code.
Fill & verify
Turn each comment into Python, then run it on your hand-worked example to prove it's right.
Why it matters: the same six steps appear inside every applied lesson, so by the time your child writes their end-of-course program — and sits a timed paper later — they aren't guessing. They run a routine they've used dozens of times, calmly, under pressure.
