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Programming failure Learning to code is learning to fail

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

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How well do you deal with frustration?

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(90% of programming is failure)

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

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

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

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

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Thanks!