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Programming Failure

Chris Vannoy
July 28, 2016
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Programming Failure

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.

Chris Vannoy

July 28, 2016
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Transcript

  1. Programming failure
    Learning to code is learning to fail

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  2. Hi!
    I'm Chris Vannoy. I teach adults how to become junior
    developers for The Iron Yard in Indianapolis

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  3. How well do you deal with
    frustration?

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  4. (90% of programming is failure)

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  5. Modeling failure
    Learn to fail by watching me fail ... over and over and over ...

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  6. Learning to fail on purpose
    (red, green, refactor)

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  7. Error messages tell you where to
    go
    (failure is a road map)

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  8. Failure is fun
    (easy is boring, and bored people leave)

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  9. Thanks!

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