mhoyeMar 13, 2024

Lazyweb, a question: let's say that you could teach a "cultural anthropology" type of course about computing to first year students, to prepare them for the codebases, communities, patterns and software philosophies of the programming world. You've got about ten weeks to run it. What would you teach in that course and why?

(RTs appreciated for reach.)

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@mhoye You need to design for the workflow of your users and around the pain points of your users. This means before you write a single line of code you need to map what the users are doing first.

So the course has to drill that into students plus teaching participant observation and semi-structured interviewing.

Mar 13, 2024 at 4:01pmWeb