Teaching Programmers Through Empathy

There is a saying that those that can’t do, teach. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, teaching may be one of the more difficult things you can do as a programmer. Once you start to think about how to explain complex topics to a beginner, you start to realize how far you’ve come and how difficult it is to explain what you know.

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1. Teaching
 Programmers Through Empathy Scott Radcliff @scottradcliff
2. Teaching
 Programmers Through Empathy Scott Radcliff @scottradcliff
3. Teaching
 Programmers Through Experience Scott Radcliff @scottradcliff
4. Safety Authority Collaborative Learning Mentorship
5. We Are All Educators
6. Remember?
7. What are you learning now?
8. Safety
9. Ability to Ask Questions
10. Permission to Break Things
11. You Don’t Know Everything
12. Authority
13. Knowledgeable (Can You Answer Questions)
14. Explain in Their Language
15. Trust
16. Be a Resource
17. Collaborative Learning
18. Don’t Give Answers
19. Still Breaking Stuff…
20. Teach Problem Solving
21. Mentorship
22. Teaching
 is Hard
23. http://velocityapp.net Thanks! Scott Radcliff @scottradcliff