I agree with the last post. The idea of a lecturer should be to teach the basics like how a plc works in general, talk about scan, memory simple logic like and, or etc. once the basics have been learned then give them a project.
FWIW none of the RA courses actually require you to write any code from scratch. They always give you pre-written code to work with.
Day 6 of a 5-day course is when you get to "play" and use your new-found knowledge.....