Thank you for taking the step to help educate the kids!
I have been working for my local school district to teach small classes of younger high school kids various programming and they always surprise me with either skill or their curiosity about programming.
For skill, we had been going over creating games in Unity for 5 months and one of the kids managed to recreate his favorite fall guys (a new game on steam) level recently! I was pretty impressed to say the least.
As for curiosity, they always ask about the coding conventions that I've come to accept but never really looked into why. So they force me to learn more to be able to answer everything!
It’s easy to take for granted the concepts we consider easy until someone asks you to explain it to them in concise terms. You realize how much you don't understand with just a single question.
And it’s appreciated. Even after 3 years of computer science, I still get deterred when I read documentation with excessive jargon. It’s important to be fluent with vocabulary, but it’s deepens our understanding when we explain things clearly.
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Thank you for taking the step to help educate the kids!
I have been working for my local school district to teach small classes of younger high school kids various programming and they always surprise me with either skill or their curiosity about programming.
For skill, we had been going over creating games in Unity for 5 months and one of the kids managed to recreate his favorite fall guys (a new game on steam) level recently! I was pretty impressed to say the least.
As for curiosity, they always ask about the coding conventions that I've come to accept but never really looked into why. So they force me to learn more to be able to answer everything!
It’s easy to take for granted the concepts we consider easy until someone asks you to explain it to them in concise terms. You realize how much you don't understand with just a single question.
Yes, I agree. Also makes me more careful of using jargons that may confuse them further.
In fact, writing posts on DEV gives me that same feeling to write as clearly and concisely, assuming nothing of anyone.
And it’s appreciated. Even after 3 years of computer science, I still get deterred when I read documentation with excessive jargon. It’s important to be fluent with vocabulary, but it’s deepens our understanding when we explain things clearly.