Stephan van Hulst wrote:For those who prefer to read, can you paraphrase the metaphor?
"How do we bootstrap students in a good way that gives them the foundation for success? For me, having them start with the IDE is not always the best thing. These (IDEs) are complex pieces of software. As soon as you open up one of these IDEs, it's like you're at the controls of a 747... You don't take someone who's still trying to learn how to fly a plane and take them into the cockpit of a 747. That's not where you start, right? You start with something that has the minimal set of controls that you need and you teach them there first and then eventually they build their way up to that (the 747)."
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The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Tim Holloway wrote:One reason why I laugh at management who think that they can hire monkeys because $FLASHY_NEW_SOFTWARE_TOOL will allow them to produce major systems without any actual skills.
Junilu Lacar wrote:
Tim Holloway wrote:One reason why I laugh at management who think that they can hire monkeys because $FLASHY_NEW_SOFTWARE_TOOL will allow them to produce major systems without any actual skills.
Yeah, in the same vein that some managers think that CI/CD can be achieve by installing tools like Git and Jenkins and imposing their use on development without so much as a conversation about CI/CD practices outside of the tools and how the tools should be used with said practices to achieve CI/CD.
"How do we bootstrap students in a good way that gives them the foundation for success? For me, having them start with the IDE is not always the best thing. These (IDEs) are complex pieces of software. As soon as you open up one of these IDEs, it's like you're at the controls of a 747... You don't take someone who's still trying to learn how to fly a plane and take them into the cockpit of a 747. That's not where you start, right? You start with something that has the minimal set of controls that you need and you teach them there first and then eventually they build their way up to that (the 747)."
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
An excellent tool.Damon McNeill wrote:. . . Notepad++ as an editor . . .
Campbell Ritchie wrote:
An excellent tool.Damon McNeill wrote:. . . Notepad++ as an editor . . .
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Tim Holloway wrote:That would be a change from the current setup where the git server gets polled every 5 minutes and does a generic build when any change gets committed without regard to deployability.
Campbell Ritchie wrote:He's using Windows®. The only editors he can get to work are Notepad, Notepad++ and vi
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Sean Corfield wrote:
But wouldn't it be even better to be in a situation where every change committed (to the main branch) could go straight to production?
Tim Holloway wrote:If you're like Amazon and don't mind random massive hour-long outages. ... Last bank I worked at...
Sean Corfield wrote:
My original comment was meant to be more of a "Wouldn't it be great if you could be confident that every version of your main branch was well-tested enough to be deployed?" -- which I think is something every software development team should aspire to.
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