Master21 Teaching Philosophy

Talk about https://master21.acadamy given at RailsHock Zurich https://www.meetup.com/rubyonrails-ch/

Transcript

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5. WORK TEACH & LEARN
6. • Coding bootcamps • Master21 curriculum • Teaching philosophy • Q & A OUTLINE
7. CODING BOOTCAMPS
11. [INSERT BORING STATISTICS HERE]
12. h:ps:/ /www.coursereport.com/reports/2016-coding-bootcamp-job-placement-demographics-report
13. h:p:/ /www.ibEmes.com/code-boot-camps-fail-obama-unaudited-stats-cast-doubt-success-rates-2301188
16. "I'm gradua+ng with a computer science degree, but I don't feel like I know how to program." h:p:/ /soIwareengineering.stackexchange.com/quesEons/43528/im-graduaEng-with-a-computer-science-degree-but-i-dont-feel-like-i-know-how-t
17. NASSIM TALEB “…The great names of the golden years of English science were hobbyists, not academics: Charles Darwin, Henry Cavendish, William Parsons, the Rev. Thomas Bayes. Britain saw its decline when it switched to the model of bureaucracy-driven science.” “Tinkering by trial and error has tradi+onally played a larger role than directed science in Western inven+on and innova+on. Indeed, advances in theore+cal science have most oLen emerged from technological development, which is closely +ed to entrepreneurship. Just think of the number of famous college dropouts in the computer industry…”
18. NASSIM TALEB
19. TECHNICAL PRACTIAL
23. MASTER21 CURRICULUM
24. MORNING: demos + inputs AFTERNOON: hands-on exercises FRIDAY: Q & A 9 WEEKS
26. COMMUNITY NETWORKING YOGA HIRING PARTNERS EVENTS / MEETUPS
28. “Good teachers care less about proving they have a great system than about finding the best way to make each student grow.” – Eric Greitens, Resilience
30. MASTER21 PHILOSOPHY
31. SOFTWARE WRITER YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO JUST ONE THING HOW PROGRAMMERS DESTROYED THE WORLD A COMMUNITY OF LIFELONG LEARNERS
32. SOFTWARE WRITER YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO JUST ONE THING HOW PROGRAMMERS DESTROYED THE WORLD A COMMUNITY OF LIFELONG LEARNERS
36. “I can’t teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.” – Hank Moody
37. “I can’t teach you how to write code, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.” – Hank Moody Me
38. “As every writer knows, if you want to be a writer, you have to be a reader first.” – Aus+n Kleon, Show your work!
39. I WRITING SOFTWARE IS AN ART
40. SOFTWARE WRITER YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO JUST ONE THING HOW PROGRAMMERS DESTROYED THE WORLD A COMMUNITY OF LIFELONG LEARNERS
41. “So what do you do?”
44. “If you want an extraordinary life, you have two paths: 1. Become the best at one specific thing. 2. Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things.”
45. “Capitalism rewards things that are both rare and valuable. You make yourself rare by combining two or more “pre^y goods” un+l no one else has your mix.”
46. “Law majors saw the greatest salary jump aLer a^ending a bootcamp” h:ps:/ /www.coursereport.com/reports/2016-coding-bootcamp-job-placement-demographics-report
48. II EMBRACE YOUR INNER DAVINCI
49. SOFTWARE WRITER YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO JUST ONE THING HOW PROGRAMMERS DESTROYED THE WORLD A COMMUNITY OF LIFELONG LEARNERS
50. How Designers destroyed the world.
51. How Programmers destroyed the world.
53. "This was not a corporate decision, from my point of view, and to my best knowledge today,” … ”This was a couple of software engineers who put this in for whatever reasons." Volkswagen has not been able to identify who these individuals might be, or even how many would have been involved in the scheme, according to the CEO.
54. “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only aLer you had your technical success…”
55. “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only aLer you had your technical success…” “…That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.” – J. Robert Oppenheimer
56. “There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a very few of them.” – Victor Papanek
57. “Adver+sing design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.” – Victor Papanek
60. YOU ARE NOT YOUR CODE
61. YOU ARE NOT YOUR CODE BUT YOU FUCKING PUT IT THERE! SO YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR IT.
62. III THINK BEFORE YOU WRITE
63. SOFTWARE WRITER YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO JUST ONE THING HOW PROGRAMMERS DESTROYED THE WORLD A COMMUNITY OF LIFELONG LEARNERS
64. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my educa+on” – Mark Twain
65. “Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough,” – Alain de Bo^on
66. Input Output ComputaVon
68. IV NEVER STOP LEARNING
69. I - WRITING SOFTWARE IS ART, NOT HARD SCIENCE II - EMBRACE YOUR INNER DAVINCI III - THINK BEFORE YOU WRITE IV - NEVER STOP LEARNING
71. BUT THAT’S JUST ME
72. THANK YOU
73. Q & A
74. THANK YOU, AGAIN