Crossing the Canyon of Cognizance: A Shared Adventure
summary
Argues that the critical gap is between unconscious incompetence and conscious competence, and that concrete mentoring practices — clear context in answers, checking installs, patient troubleshooting — actually keep learners engaged. Cites tools and failure modes: Stack Overflow, Code Academy, messy installs like RVM, and community workshops. Gives a working model: tend erfoot builds a bridge one step at a time, aided by paper-airplane messages, and a local RailsBridge shows scale with 25 volunteers and 50 students helping novices reach the other side.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 2:41anyone should be able to learn to code
- 4:16The Steeply Sloping Ascent
- 14:25People with a math background did fine, of course...
- 28:50...I didn't realize how easily you can type something wrong and break your program.
- 29:18Learn Code the Hard Way
- 34:28Pioneer Expansion Pack
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