What a wonderful experience. Thank you again! I'm honored that I got to take part. There were some seriously impressive people there, I felt like I was walking amoung giants.
@jonafato I did a tutorial at @pyconza (South Africa) about 5 years back. There were a bunch of students in the audience, they were studing through an alt ed training provider called Umuzi. I'm now Umuzi's CTO.
Umuzi used to train people on premisis but Covid slapped us around a bit and we needed to get good at training people remotely. I'm going to be telling that story at @pycon
🤔 I ❤️ this morning trend of waking up and bookmarking everyone's new blog posts. Please keep it going.
If you want to blog but aren't, I found https://micro.blog to be just good enough to get over my writing hump. You don't need it, though. Just write and publish.
I've recently chatted to a few people who have had negative experiences with coding bootcamps - including students, hiring managers, and people who have bootcamp grads on their teams at work. Some companies won't hire bootcamp grads.
There are a lot of anti-patterns in bootcamp-land. And a lot of people are trying to make a quick buck.
If you have negative experiences, can you please let me know about them? PMs are welcome
Just to continue on my beat of troubling narratives of achievement & cognition... mind-blowing to consider recent points made about social cognition and the flip of our deficit narratives
Let me try to put this in non-jargon terms. For years, it's been claimed on "classic" cognition tasks that lower social class (broadly speaking) predicts worse performance.
But what happens when you look at social cognition tasks that are thought to rely on the same core factors (like working memory)?
@grimalkina I'm no psychologist, but this rings true to me - I've had a theory for a while:
We privileged, specialized folks have enough capital that many problems can be solved using service providers. I can call a plumber, a mechanic, a handyman when I need something done. I don't need to rely on people in my network, and they don't need to rely on me. So, certain social muscles don't get flexed, and community isn't built.
@Di4na
4. I'm not so sure. Writing code faster is great, but the kind of critical thinking needed to solve problems isn't something you can really build tools for. Eg juniors need to learn about problem decomposition so that they can solve bigger problems and so they can communicate about where they are stuck. There are lots of different skills like that that are not just about code.
@Di4na Ah, yes, I think tools can help speed things up. Juniors probably struggle to get a good flow because they are still clumsy in how they get their thoughts out of their heads and into the machine
I'm hunting for conferences to apply to talk at. I'm most keen on #Python, #webdevelopment, and anything to do with #techEd. If you know of anything please share links. Thank you
