Talk given at FailFest (Fishers, IN) 2016 on teaching programming and the role failure plays in programming as a career and learning to program especially.
Programming failureLearning to code is learning to fail
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Hi!I'm Chris Vannoy. I teach adults how to become juniordevelopers for The Iron Yard in Indianapolis
How well do you deal withfrustration?
(90% of programming is failure)
Modeling failureLearn to fail by watching me fail ... over and over and over ...
Learning to fail on purpose(red, green, refactor)
Error messages tell you where togo(failure is a road map)
Failure is fun(easy is boring, and bored people leave)
Thanks!