Teaching Programming: You're Doing It Wrong

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I have been encouraging my girlfriend, an instructional designer and an English teacher, to learn programming. She complains non stop about how poorly done the tutorials are. Apparently programmers are notorious for using terminology that normal people don't grok. She will also stop in the middle of coding to emails the creator about spelling mistakes.

Her goal is to one day build programming tutorials using adult learning principles and with good grammar.

Sounds like a plan to me! Sites like CodeAcademy have gotten pretty good at creating lessons, but we've built a product that works with any coding lesson.

If your girlfriend is interested in monetizing those tutorials have her email me at saul[at]gradetrain[dot]com. We'll be opening up a marketplace for content just like that later this year.

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