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by bphogan 11y ago
Those are great. I'm about to publish a book of simple programming practice problems based on my curriculum and experience teaching programming. Each section asks the reader to rely on more fundamental concepts, from basic input proces
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I do this. I just don't give them props. And it is a great effective approach that also gets them thinking about basic algorithms by breaking down problems.
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Running git blame is faster than waiting 30 minutes for the results of a whiteboard test.
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Well, I for one am interested in this. I perform accessibility audits a few times a year on a contract basis, and I'm always looking for ways to help my clients do some of the testing themselves. But the problem I run into is that many
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The question is why were you in the class if you already knew the material? People like you should be able to get credit for what you already know if you can demonstrate it. Unless of course you're just looking for a GPA and need the e
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This article focuses a lot on lectures. And lectures are dying. Modern teaching methods are trying to phase them out, as the Internet is really good at giving you information. The educator's role is now a facilitator. "Guide on th
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No, college isn't boring. Lectures are boring. And they're boring because they can't rely on students to read the textbook so they have to tell you what's in the textbook. The best teachers don't lecture. They facil
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It is very good. There's an educational philosophy around this that state that people who are new need to know "why should I care" first, then "how do I do it" next, followed by "ok, why does it work that way?&
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And this is what's wrong with employment, and why so many unqualified people get in. Look, I say this as a teacher who offers degree classes, and as a student earning a certificate that says I can teach... You can earn certificates wit
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I disagree. Here's why. If you're good at web development... that means you understand HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and you understand them at the level you should if you want to call yourself a web developer, then learning whatever
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I keep hearing this argument touted, but if you view source on the HN home page it uses tables and a <center> tag. You do not have to learn a new framework to do things on the web. The browsers all seem to support stuff that's wo
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Hi. There's nothing out of the box for API authentication. But I set up authentication in less than an hour for my app yesterday. You really want to learn how Plug works, and doing that opens up so many possibilities. I'm frustrat
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Thanks for reading.
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...I use Ableton Live to do quite a bit of non loop-based composition. It's quite easy to do and feels well supported.
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This is what I recommend to my students. This is the best answer on here, much better than mine.
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Yes. Exactly. But that's why mentoring relationships need to happen organically. So that the trust can be there. That the mentee (if that's a word) can build up confidence and the pair can work as colleagues.
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First, I would hope that they would introduce me to things I don't know about, and eventually teach me things. And give me feedback on how I can improve. Mentoring relationships need to be bidirectional in my opinion.
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You don't "get a mentor." You develop a relationship with a person who has more experience than you do, and over time, that person may become a mentor to you. And I say may , because if the person you're working with d
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by bphogan 12y ago
I think this is awesome just for the sake of doing it. I'm always impressed with how these kinds of projects are implemented.
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As a low vision computer user that supports disabled people on the web, and whose father spent 30 years working with disabled people, I can tell you for a fact that for some people, accessibility should be a requirement all the time. Especi
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No it's really not. We have students in debt because they MAJOR in areas where they end up with no marketable skills. Taking a history class, a philosophy class, and a sociology class along with some economics and science helps you sol
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You were inspired. Therein is the career-changing aspect. Yes they seem obvious now, but you had a roadmap for your learning. That is why it, and many of the other books, are career-changing. :)
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Or Mozilla and MS refusing to implement Web SQL Databases because IndexedDB and NoSQL was better, even though one works on all mobile phones since 2010 and the other is wonky and has a terribly designed API. No need to single anyone out. Th
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Can't upvote this enough. If there's anyone here on the W3C, consider this an upvote for bringing back WebSQL. IndexedDB reminds me a lot of the Drag and Drop stuff the W3C settled on: several different kinds of awful.
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This. And if you check the credentials of people in HR, you'll probably find someone there with a JD.
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The book Corporate Confidential talks about how this works in large companies. It states that, generally, people who get laid off are the ones who have clashes with the managers. They disagree too much, complain, gossip, etc. Has nothing to
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HN is a community where people solve difficult problems for a living. So someone using "difficult" as a reason for something doesn't really fly with me. As for expensive? I'll agree. Going cost is about $1 per minute min
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Once you learn how to do these things, they become second nature. That's the problem though. People don't think twice about learning a new programming language. But learning how to caption videos, choose colorblind friendly colors
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Yea, that's what I figured. But I don't like it so much. I tend to end up wrapping it myself just because I like piping with |>. But my main point was that when I started, I could just look to one source for language docs. But
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This is a great list. I appreciate this. I have to add that your last entries are really important. Elixir is great, but I'm finding more and more that I have to dig into Erlang to do many, many things, because Elixir doesn't have

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