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The First Principles of the High Value Software Developer

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The First Principles of the High Value Software Developer

Much like a painting maestro would never hand beginners brushes and paint and tell them to start painting, beginner software developers should not be told that their primary goal is to write code.

Learning with Spice

Learning with Spice

Simple required figuring out exactly what works and what doesn't for learning software patterns and practices. It was uncharted territory.

A/LEAN Learner Experience

The key fundamental to LEAN learning is the elimination of noise - this includes tools, processes, distractions, and more.

Teaching React to Novices

Teaching React to Novices

I've been spending time on how we can best prepare students for React by telling a story. That story should result in students needing only to learn new syntax, not new concepts.

He Was Writing an Exercise About HTML Dialogs When It Suddenly Became Obvious to Take an Enormous Risk and Use Them With a Custom React Hook

He Was Writing an Exercise About HTML Dialogs When It Suddenly Became Obvious to Take an Enormous Risk and Use Them With a Custom React Hook

The result of this journey led to a greater understanding of how to implement custom React hooks, and it inadvertantly led to a better understanding of the built-in `useEffect()` hook to handle what should happen when the component renders.

You don't need to be good at math, but...

You don't need to be good at math, but...

When students arrive for their first day of class at NSS, their brains have very different starting points for the logical thought processes and complex mental models that we ask them to build.

The Best Day of Our Lives

The Best Day of Our Lives

All of these events get stitched together into a tapestry that defines the NSS experience, and it culminates with the job offer, and the celebration begins.

C# Generics and Delegates: A Simple but Real Example

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C# Generics and Delegates: A Simple but Real Example

The topic of Generics came up in a discussion this week with my students, so I wanted show them why they are used with a straightforward example.

Building Teams that Learn

Building Teams that Learn

There are many subtle things that go into being an instructor on

Helping Students Attain a Growth Mindset

Helping Students Attain a Growth Mindset

John Wark and I - this is going back several months now

Apprenticeships: The Big Comeback

Apprenticeships: The Big Comeback

Apprenticeships have the potential to be the best solution for building a reliable pipeline of qualified professionals. Colleges and universities simply cannot keep up with the torrid pace of innovation and destruction that is happening in software development.

Crowdsourcing a Conference Talk

Crowdsourcing a Conference Talk

I want to try an experiment. I'm going to crowdsource