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# Notes on curriculum design

## Teaching principles

* "Lock before key": [Locked doors, headaches, and intellectual need](https://mkremins.github.io/blog/doors-headaches-intellectual-need/)
* "T-ball, not batting drills": [Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education](https://www.amazon.com/Making-Learning-Whole-Principles-Transform/dp/0470633719)
* "Diátaxis": [A systematic framework for technical documentation authoring.](https://diataxis.fr/)
* Make the invisible visible
* Let's try it
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* 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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