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Often you don't need someone at the pinnacle of a field to teach you, you need someone who is just a little ahead of you. I still remember in uni one of the bes
by lordnacho 5y ago
Often you don't need someone at the pinnacle of a field to teach you, you need someone who is just a little ahead of you. I still remember in uni one of the best tutors was a phd student.
MC to me always looked a bit like the Discovery Channel: interesting stuff, but will you really be any better afterwards? It's interesting that maybe the thing that satisfies her the most was the cooking, in other words the class where you actually practice the thing you're learning. How many of the other teachers even asked for that?
Say you had a programming class on MC. (Maybe they do?) Do they tell you to actually write code and debug it? Are there exercises? What I'm getting at is sometimes the teacher doesn't teach, but the student learns.
- ModernMech 5y agoA masterclass isn’t really about about learning the subject as a novice, it’s about learning from a master as an expert/advanced student. I don’t need to be taught how to write code or do exercises. I know how to do all that stuff already. What I need now is wisdom gained from decades of experience. That’s what a masterclass is for. For example, I would love a masterclass by Linus Torvalds. But I don't want him teaching me C, that's a waste of his and my time. Instead, I want to understand his method and process. Something only he knows and which he gained from experience, not a textbook. All that said I don’t know if that is the purpose of the Masterclass service.
- glanzwulf 5y agoProgramming per se is tricky like you said, but I could see them have a course on how to be a programmer. I'm currently reading "The Pragmatic Programmer" and I could totally see that be a masterclass. It fits their theme.