The best programmers are teachers

As presented at RuPy 2013, in Budapest.

Transcript

3. The best programmer is a teacher
4. OH RRLY?
5. It’s awesome to help people
6. teaching will accelerate your own learning
7. you can get started right away
8. Hi!
9. Looking back...
10. 1 Start with the basics
11. 2 JavaScript. Really.
12. 3 No Bootstrap.
13. 3 No Bootstrap.
14. 4 It’s a workflow thing.
15. 5 Nobody cares about your favorite editor.
16. The tools that you use, are - to a large extend - incidental. Josh Susser, panelist at Ruby Rogues
17. Life is too short to not be happy with your editor. And it’s way the hell too short to not be happy with anybody else’s choice of editor. Chalain
18. 6 BDD rocks.
19. 7 Teach them the lingo. (to a certain extend)
20. 8 Don’t let them fake it till they make it.
21. and dependency injection in this particular case is great because... Said no-one ever.
22. 9 Get back to it later.
23. 10 Learn 2 languages. (just maybe not Java)
24. 11 The matrix.
25. Did you try turning it off and on again?
26. 12 Let them teach you.
27. 13 It is not easy. (stop saying it is)
28. 14 StackOverflow.
29. The Downs
30. Help ignore the people who rain on their parade
31. Help overcome the imposter syndrome
32. Quit the dev wars.
33. Open Source is brutal.
34. Survival of the fittest in the open source world is a pretty brutal mechanism, it works well for pro- ducing quality software. But boy is it hard on newcomers... Google’s Chris DiBona
35. The 1ups
36. People rock.
37. Better way of problem solving.
38. > dorm rooms and cold pizza
39. Gamify ALL the learning
42. Happy teaching!