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How my Sister and Girlfriend learned Coding
- mmxio 14y agoMy personal experience told me that, building the interest is always the first in teaching.
- ehutch79 14y agoWOAH. what, is this 4chan or something? perhaps you want to use a comma...
- fersho311 14y agoYes... I kind of just brainstormed the blog post, did not expect it to end up on HN
- arctangent 14y agoIt's great that you shared this with the internets, even if you were in a hurry. Now that you have some feedback on the article you can iterate :-)
- abduhl 14y agoWhere exactly would a comma go in this title that wouldn't make it worse? ex: "my sister, and girlfriend,"
- fersho311 14y agohow, my sister, and gf, learned to code
- trafficlight 14y agoYou can't just throw commas around all willy-nilly.
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- ComputerGuru 14y agoIf you want to nitpick: please don't post caps, and a comma would not help (and would, in fact, be quite wrong). The simplest solution would be "How both my sister and my girlfriend learned to code." That said, I think after the initial double-take the meaning of the title becomes clear and there isn't actually a need to change it :)
- fong1991 14y agoThis is such a busy and satisfying summer. Thanks Song (fersho311) for being my mentor!
- fersho311 14y agoHaha thanks Fong, we should build a website together!
- devuatl 14y agoGreat job! Really inspiring. I love hearing about ideas how to introduce programming to people without cs background, nor (I assume) any prior interest in software development. I liked the part about communication - that's something they never teach at the universities. Btw, what did you use for editting? Some sort of an IDE, or maybe something lighter? For begimners I've always thought something like notepad++ or gedit should be enough (for the sake of syntax highlighting, wchich makes code so much prettier).
- fersho311 14y agoI introduced them to sublime, but after watching me work on my vim terminal they really, really wanted to learn vim. and so it was macvim.
- n0mad01 14y agosister and girlfriend?