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232 RR Teaching and How We Can All Do More to Teach Technical Topics to Others with Eric Normand
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02:20 - Eric Normand Introduction03:31 - Old vs Young Programmers05:38 - Teaching Fundamentals11:02 - Teaching Backgrounds12:13 - Why is so hard to be a good teacher?15:54 - Teacher Feedback19:46 - Asking Questions25:56 - Community Education28:20 - Order of Operation29:36 - Recognizing Students Understanding of Fundamentals31:25 - Should there be prerequisites?34:30 - How to Assess Where People Are 35:43 - Teaching the Teacher39:10 - Bootcamps 45:52 - After BootcampsMentoring52:11 - Skill vs Knowledge More From Eric
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Windows 10 (Avdi)
Sandi Metz's Courses (Avdi)
Avdi Grimm: I have a newsletter. You could subscribe, maybe. (Avdi)
Ian Steadman: Sex isn’t chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X & Y (Coraline)
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (Coraline)
Wunderlist (Jessica)
The Partially Examined Life (Jessica)
Together Tech (Chuck)
Being Intentional (Chuck)
Highrise (Chuck)
Eventual Millionaire with Rory Vaden (Chuck)
Ruby Rogues (Eric)
Yoshiki Ohshima's Youtube Channel (Eric)
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas by Seymour A. Papert (Eric)Special Guest: Eric Normand.
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