Let’s All Be Beginners Again @ up.front Berlin

It’s not often you’re afforded a view of your profession from the eyes of a beginner. After having recently taught an introductory course to web design and programming, Tim will share, reflect and discuss on some of the surprises and challenges that his students faced during their first foray into web development.

Transcript

1. Let’s All Be Beginners Again !
2. Hello Friends!
3. The Class I Ran 1. Terminology 2. HTML & CSS 3. Programming 4. Web Application Programming
4. The Students 1. Wanting to pay others 2. Wanting to work with others 3. Wanting to make stuff themselves
5. What Did I Learn?
6. Logo is amazing !
8. Copying/retyping is not boring it’s great
9. Superpowers are motivational
10. Basic programming was easier than CSS selectors
11. CSS selector tools suck
12. Publishing local files is hard
13. Connections are harder to understand than individual technologies
14. Rails is not a great intro
15. Silence creates questions
16. Complexity is built one stumble at a time
17. Web peeps are !