Notes on curriculum design

Teaching principles

• "Lock before key": Locked doors, headaches, and intellectual need

• "T-ball, not batting drills": Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education

• "Diátaxis": A systematic framework for technical documentation authoring.

• 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.