How my Sister and Girlfriend learned Coding

http://blog.songz.me/how-my-sister-and-girlfriend-learned-coding-in-2-months/

by FredericJ • 14 years ago

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mmxio• 14 years ago

My personal experience told me that, building the interest is always the first in teaching.

ehutch79• 14 years ago

WOAH. what, is this 4chan or something? perhaps you want to use a comma...

fersho3115• 14 years ago

Yes... I kind of just brainstormed the blog post, did not expect it to end up on HN

arctangent• 14 years ago

It's great that you shared this with the internets, even if you were in a hurry. Now that you have some feedback on the article you can iterate :-)

abduhl• 14 years ago

Where exactly would a comma go in this title that wouldn't make it worse?

ex: "my sister, and girlfriend,"

fersho3115• 14 years ago

how, my sister, and gf, learned to code

ComputerGuru• 14 years ago

If you want to nitpick: please don't post caps, and a comma would not help (and would, in fact, be quite wrong).

The simplest solution would be "How both my sister and my girlfriend learned to code."

That said, I think after the initial double-take the meaning of the title becomes clear and there isn't actually a need to change it :)

fong1991• 14 years ago

This is such a busy and satisfying summer. Thanks Song (fersho311) for being my mentor!

fersho3115• 14 years ago

Haha thanks Fong, we should build a website together!

devuatl• 14 years ago

Great job! Really inspiring. I love hearing about ideas how to introduce programming to people without cs background, nor (I assume) any prior interest in software development. I liked the part about communication - that's something they never teach at the universities. Btw, what did you use for editting? Some sort of an IDE, or maybe something lighter? For begimners I've always thought something like notepad++ or gedit should be enough (for the sake of syntax highlighting, wchich makes code so much prettier).

fersho3115• 14 years ago

I introduced them to sublime, but after watching me work on my vim terminal they really, really wanted to learn vim. and so it was macvim.

n0mad012• 14 years ago

sister and girlfriend?

fersho3115• 14 years ago

CMON YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANT.

n0mad012• 14 years ago

yeah, just kiddin.

How my Sister and Girlfriend learned Coding

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