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2021 Level Up Now!
What a year it has been! While this year certainly felt like a roller coaster of up's and down's one thing remained constant; your desire to learn and grow. I'm so thankful that you all have joined one or more of my courses and have participated in the learning. As a thank you I'd like to give you some coupons to my courses at the best price Udemy will allow me to set.
- The Art of Doing: Code 40 Challenging Python Programs Today ($13.99)
- The Art of Doing: Create 10 Python GUIs with Tkinter Today! ($9.99)
- The Art of Doing: Learn the Linux Command Line ($9.99)
- The Art of Doing: Master Networks and Network Scanning (9.99)
Thank you for your support!
This is not a Udemy promotion but rather something I am doing just for you as a way to show my appreciation and say thank you for all the support. Your support for these courses, positive reviews, and kind words have gone a long way in helping me create quality educational content that is engaging, meaningful, and with purpose.
I hope you consider joining in on the over 130,000 course enrollments I've had this year! Level up for 2021 and begin learning those new skills today!
What is the art of doing?
Motivation
Combining my expertise as an educator and my own personal interest in self-taught computer science led me to a telling realization; most educational material for the self-taught programmer is NOT EDUCATIONAL AT ALL. Instead, it falls into one of two categories:
- Writing small "snippets" of programs that taken out of context, seem to serve no purpose at all and frankly, are beneath the user. Prime examples include using a for loop to print out all even numbers from 1 to 100 or using if statements to respond to generic user input. Here, users are bored and aren't challenge to create anything with meaning. There is little purpose other than gaining what is essentially factual level knowledge. It is a waste of your time.
- Watching others code whole "applications" without a true understanding of what is going on. These are programs whose scope is beyond the user in which there is no clear guide to walk the user through the thought process without just giving them the answers. Here, without proper support and guidance, the user just defaults to letting someone else unfold the solution for them. There is little engagement in watching someone else work and rarely a thought generated on one's own. It is a waste of time.
Yes, I will admit that some learning does take place in doing simple tasks or watching others complete complicated tasks. In fact, much of how I learned was done this way. However, I'm telling you it pales in comparison to the learning that takes place by DOING meaningful and appropriately challenging work. This is the art of doing.
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