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Kenneth Love
October 07, 2017
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Those Who Care, Teach!
Teaching, inclusivity, diversity, and helpful language. From PyOhio 2017 and PyGotham 2017
Kenneth Love
October 07, 2017
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Transcript
Those who care, teach!
Hello! I am Kenneth Love You can find me on
almost any service as @kennethlove
CAVEAT 100% self-taught at teaching ? ? ?
Reaching a wide audience Help people listen 1.
Reassurances ▪ Learning is hard ▪ It’s OK to have
to practice ▪ I had to learn this stuff, too
Encourage breaks ▪ No one works well on an empty
stomach ▪ Blood flow helps the brain work ▪ A change of scenery for problem-solving
Inclusion ▪ Include ambiguous names and non-gendered pronouns ▪ Use
names from other cultures and languages ▪ Don’t rely on idioms ▪ Slow down
None
▪ Folks ▪ Everyone ▪ Friends & Enemies ▪ Youse
Embrace the y’all
Moms get things done
Avoid four letter words !#?
No techshaming <?
Jargon TLA ▪ Computer Science-related terms ▪ Work projects and
code names
Make misteakes ▪ Error handling ▪ Log and stacktrace parsing
▪ Typos ▪ Refactoring
MISTAKE ? ! ! !
Reinforcement Help people remember 2.
Coding challenges ▪ Keep instructions minimal and clear ▪ Approach
from different angles ▪ Repeat whole previous challenges as single steps
Better than before ▪ Percentiles and grades can be depressing
▪ Care more about output than process, especially in the beginning
Repos and issues ▪ Provide code students can check out
▪ Have issues for them to solve
Story problems ▪ Provide touch points from industries and hobbies
that aren’t programming ▪ Two benefits: representation and better connections between programming and life
Motion and design ▪ Abstraction ▪ Overcome societal norms/idioms ▪
Representation
Notes and documentation ▪ Take-home guides ▪ Jupyter Notebooks ▪
Project files
Bye! I’m friendly and love to chat! You can find
me at the conference or online @kennethlove If you’d like to teach: • Meetups and bootcamps • Treehouse, Udacity, Codecademy, Code School, Pluralsite, etc • Django Girls • Corporate training
Credits Special thanks to all the people who made and
released these awesome resources for free: ▪ Presentation template by SlidesCarnival ▪ Photograph by Treehouse