Teacher's Manual
  • Introduction
  • Answering Questions on Piazza
  • Notable questions
  • Chesterton's Fence
  • Docker Essentials
  • Notes on curriculum design
  • Notes on presenting
  • Pair Teaching
  • Eliciting Questions During Class
  • Office Hours
  • Open Office Hours
  • How To Write Tests
  • Beginner-friendly Code Style Guide
  • rails grade
  • Audit Requests
  • Setting Up Canvas
  • Setting Up GitHub
  • Preparing for Day 1
  • Syllabus
  • How To Create A Project
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    • Grades
  • Possible Format For Lecture Notes
  • Configuring Cloud9
  • Projects Checklist
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    • Adding Dependencies to a Project
    • Adding Specs to a README
    • Updating Gitpod Docker Image
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  • Integrating GitHub with Slack
  • Mastering Git
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Notes on curriculum design

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Teaching principles

  • "Lock before key":

  • "T-ball, not batting drills":

  • "Diátaxis":

  • Make the invisible visible

  • Let's try it

  • Try to make it such that after-class exercises do not depend upon in-class exercises, so that you can let students work ahead on after-class exercises. I.e, the starting point of an after-class exercise shouldn't be the solution to an in-class exercise.

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