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It's definitely good when you can make the time and space to build up all the concepts from scratch. In retrospect, I should have done this with my last traine
by sevensor 8y ago
It's definitely good when you can make the time and space to build up all the concepts from scratch. In retrospect, I should have done this with my last trainee. Smart person, fast learner, but so many pieces were missing. The worst thing was being deeply hesitant to do anything at a command prompt. There's only so far you can get if everything you do is mediated by a GUI. If I had it to do over, I would have forbidden IDE use for the first month. I think it was deeply damaging.
- atemerev 8y agoYes, that’s what I do — forbid the use of IDEs (they only become indispensable for large projects, and we don’t do anything large-scale yet). This is an excellent gamified CTF to learn the ins and outs of UNIX command line: http://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/ http://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/ . I usually require my students to reach at least level 10 to pass, and everybody liked it so far.