Category: tutoring
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Podcast: Claude Code’s Shining Moment
Big Technology Podcast: Claude Code’s Shining Moment, ChatGPT for Healthcare, End Of Busywork? Episode webpage: https://www.bigtechnology.com/ Media file: Listen to the episode What I’m Seeing in My Tutoring Sessions I listened to this podcast on my morning walk yesterday. The discussion about Claude Code hit different for me because I’m watching it play out in…
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Building products with Claude Code, even for non engineers
I have worked in high tech for 30 years, building products for public companies and training thousands of software engineers to be productive. In 202, I have tutored 331 hours with tutor middle school, highschool, college students in computer science. My most recent students are adults who are not computer engineers but they want to…
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The Gift of Learning: Birthday Reflections on Growth
Reflecting on the gift of learning for my birthday: from coding pointers and cocoa trees to tennis and block printing. Embodying Gandhi’s advice to learn as if you were to live forever.
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Tutoring Student Using microbit.org
Today I had a student who was in sixth grade and was struggling with understanding how to work on an assignment on microbit.org. Even though I’ve never used the site, it looks similar to other UI-based block programming systems, except this student had to troubleshoot raw python code that was generated by the block program.…