You’re familiar with O’Reilly’s brilliant Head First Series, right? Great. Then you know how every book begins with an explanation of the Head First teaching style and you know the teaching format which Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates developed is based on research in cognitive science, neurobiology and educational psychology and it’s all about making [...]
I previously noted that we started a language club at work. You know, I searched around but I couldn’t find a copy of the How to Organize a Programming Language Club Handbook. Maybe it’s sold out? Yes, Stack Overflow has quite a bit of information on how to learn and teach new languages and there’s [...]
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I mentioned in a previous post that we’ve started a languages club at the office. In an effort to decide which language we will first concentrate on, I volunteered to give the rundown on F#. Rather than providing a summary here, I’ve provided my slide deck for your viewing enjoyment. There’s nothing special here outside [...]
We started a language club at work this week. Thus far, we have a collective interest in a number of languages: Python, Ruby, F#, Erlang, Objective-C, Scala, Clojure, Haskell and Go. There are more but these 9 received the most votes.
During the first few meetings we are going to determine which language we should [...]