Tag: learning
What PowerShell Summit Showed Me
2015-04-25
PowerShell Summit was a blast. I learned some great new skills and connected with a ton of folks who are as passionate about technology as I am. But even though PowerShell Summit is a conference about Windows PowerShell, attending it opened my eyes to some other important lessons that apply to everyone in IT.
Continue readingBones - My Learning Experience
2013-05-20
Bones is a WordPress theme built by Themble that was recommended to me not long ago by a friend. I had been debating building a custom theme for the site, and I wasn’t sure where to start. Now, only a few weeks after I started looking at Bones in my (extremely rare) spare time, plattsoft.net is live on my new theme. There are a lot of great features in Bones, and I really like it now that I’ve gotten used to it. I definitely hit some bumps along the way, though. I want to document the solutions to the frustrating problems I faced, but first I want to talk about the things about Bones that made it possible to put up with all of that frustration.
Continue readingWorst Practices: Thinking You are Done Learning
2010-07-20
In the field of software engineering, you are never done learning. That should probably be one of the first ten rules of the profession.
Continue readingWhat Motivates Us
2010-06-26
I found this video from the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA for short) to be very insightful.
Continue readingAnalogies as Abstractions
2009-07-21
Analogies are an effective way of communicating knowledge of one domain by mapping the domain’s concepts to another similar domain that is known by that person. In this way, a person can gain understanding of domain B through their existing knowledge of domain A.
Continue readingMandatory Programming Education
2008-10-06
I recently read this article at InfoWorld which discusses the idea of requiring students at the middle or high school level to learn how to program. The author, Neil McAllister, cites the increasing need for basic computer literacy in our technology-dependent world. While I agree that computer literacy is of critical importance today, I don’t entirely agree that courses on programming are the way to get there, at least not the way programming courses are taught currently.
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