How to teach programming to your loved ones [video]
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Re: How to teach programming to your loved ones [video]
#2Step 1: You don't.
Re: How to teach programming to your loved ones [video]
#3Step 1: You don't.
amend step1: before teaching, make sure they shave their hair.
Re: How to teach programming to your loved ones [video]
#4Step 1: You don't.
Even if you do, probably not in Racket and German at the same time
Re: How to teach programming to your loved ones [video]
#5Step 1: You don't.
That's my experience. I wanted to teach programming to my SO, because I know she's extremely intelligent and she could do programming quite well. She just had a mental block, and never got it past the second week of the (Coursera) class, when she had to program something small and felt extremely stupid for not knowing how to do it.
I remember going through the same when I was studying programming though. Some people get over it, others don't. That's ok.
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#6Re: How to teach programming to your loved ones [video]
#7Step 1: You don't.
Agreed.
I think everyone should have a broad understanding of the purpose of programming and what it can achieve.
Not everyone needs to learn to program. Some people just don't like it and won't have the knack for it.
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#8Re: How to teach programming to your loved ones [video]
#9Step 1: You don't.
That's my experience. I wanted to teach programming to my SO, because I know she's extremely intelligent and she could do programming quite well. She just had a mental block, and never got it past the second week of the (Coursera) class, when she had to program something small and felt extremely stupid for not knowing how to do it. I remember going through the same when I was studying programming though. Some people…
That's quite a different statement than "don't", isn't it?
Re: How to teach programming to your loved ones [video]
#10Step 1: You don't.
That's my experience. I wanted to teach programming to my SO, because I know she's extremely intelligent and she could do programming quite well. She just had a mental block, and never got it past the second week of the (Coursera) class, when she had to program something small and felt extremely stupid for not knowing how to do it. I remember going through the same when I was studying programming though. Some people…
The mental blocks can be totally unrelated to the difficulty of the concepts, too.
My wife is also smart and totally capable of learning to program. I've seen her self-learn subjects (e.g., how email headers work or basic SQL queries) just to scratch a particular itch, though she didn't think of it as learning a technical skill.
But she'll never bother learning to program, because she's "not a tech person". It all goes back to her being a young girl in school and having one bad computer teacher who made her feel stupid and inadequate. She's completely averse to "learning to program". Her block to learning is entirely emotional, acquired from a stressful event.