Teaching Beginners

Created by Joe Burgess

Me!

• I'm (mostly) self-taught
• By the end of college I didn't like programming
• Now I work at The Flatiron School

Experience Vs. Intelligence

How can we craft the most efficient experience?

6 Lessons

1. Passion

Finding Passionate People

• Passion in other areas
• Independent Curiosity

2. Feedback

Test

Driven

Learning

And Development

Early, Early, Early

3. Make It Simple

Simpler

Seriously Guyz

Make It Simpler

4. Learn The Language

Increasing Layers Of Abstraction

• Language Basics (Types, Logic, Conditions)
• OOP
• TDD

Then The Framework

Then The Libraries

Do things the hard way first

Not too much magic

5. Teach Patterns

Complex, Consistant Patterns

William Chase and Herbert Simon

Superior players skills derived from their ability to encode position into larger chunks.

Pattern Matching

6. Multi-Threading

Keep it simple!

• Immutable Objects
• TDD your Race Conditions

Come Talk!

THE END

• joe@flatironschool.com
• jmburges
• @jmburges

References

• Perception in Chess