Re:Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code
by plumdot on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @04:21PM
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How do you teach? As an instructor at a school or tutoring on the side?
Re:Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code
by yjhoney on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @07:20PM
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I work with my local library to hold coding office hours
(Should be very easy to set up, they really want to become more technically savvy but the only volunteers they could find is instructors trying to teach microsoft word)
I have my own curriculum that I've built over the years and the students ultimately end up building a product that they launch (hopefully). This year I got to teach 20 students and so far 14 have gotten full time jobs as software engineers. Fortunately, students who got jobs are all doing well at their jobs so its pretty easy to refer people in.
After the remaining 6 students get a full time job, I plan to open source my curriculum that students have helped polish over the years. You can find the gist of it at c0d3.com
Re:Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code
by josepi_ on Friday November 16, 2018 @05:02PM
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This looks awesome! Any way I can get an invite code?
Edabit seems too heavily on algorithms. I've seen many beginner students get quickly burned out from doing algorithms when starting out.
I've found the most effective way to teach coding is to make their learning project based (very much like how professors taught concepts back in college). Build X, Y, Z, each project building up in complexity so students can think about different combinations of everything they learned to complete the project.