Learning how to learn

[mara]

@gordon

I think as people learn to program one of the main skills that they learn is how to identify their knowledge gaps, describe those gaps, and be able to tell when those gaps have been filled. My question is what are some teachable ways that you can help people develop that skill?

This is great, and I don't think the two threads should be collapsed, but I just wanted to pop a to the Building foundational skills for programming beginners thread here, as I think they go together nicely.

Building foundational skills for programming beginners

Continuing the discussion from Connecting with other instructors using Tidyverse / r4ds book? as well as this Twitter thread, it would be wonderful to get your thoughts and feedback as part of the broader discussion around facilitating the beginner learning experience: Audience I firmly believe that one of the most impactful things you can do to build foundational skills for programming beginners is to invest the time upfront in getting to know your audience. For example, the two groups that I am getting prepared to work with are: Colleagues with no stats or programming background, who come from previous experiences where data has been used in a punitive manner (poor results collected f…