Learning programming reminders

Learning programming reminders

• Take lots of breaks! Programmer brain where you skip dinner is real. Don't forget dinner.

• Most programming experience happens by practicing it.

• Programming is learning how to deal with failure

• 99% of the time you're programming, you're not creating; you're debugging or copying & pasting

• Save often with crappy editors

Teaching programming reminders

• Be receptive to feelings. Actually ask, how are you feeling?

• Go slow! You think you're going slow? You're probably not going slow enough.

• Be extremely organized (remote teaching).

• Teach project planning and norming

• Teach how to ask for help

• Practice good pseudocoding and communicating what is happening with program