Coach Steve Brownlee (Page 6)

September 02, 2018

nss

The Best Day of Our Lives

All of these events get stitched together into a tapestry that defines the NSS experience, and it culminates with the job offer, and the celebration begins.

September 01, 2018

software development

C# Generics and Delegates: A Simple but Real Example

The topic of Generics came up in a discussion this week with my students, so I wanted show them why they are used with a straightforward example.

August 18, 2018

react

React View Switching with Custom Events

Any component that needs to switch the view based on user gesture, or other event, can simply dispatch an event with a data payload. The payload is optional, and contains any data the next view may need to do its job.

July 20, 2018

education

Building Teams that Learn

There are many subtle things that go into being an instructor on our team. If you look at our courses on Github (which are open source), you

July 08, 2018

Foundation Workshops

From the very beginning of my time teaching at Nashville Software School - back in January 2015 - I've had the hare-brained idea to pers

July 08, 2018

Lightning Exercises to Promote a Growth Mindset

As a relatively new addition to the course at NSS, I'm excited at its potential, and from the gains that we have already seen from it.

July 08, 2018

education

Helping Students Attain a Growth Mindset

John Wark and I - this is going back several months now - were discussing Carol Dweck and her research into Growth/Fixed Learning Mindsets a

June 09, 2018

javascript

Custom Object Iterators in JavaScript

Imagine that you have an object in JavaScript that maintains a list of items, and you want the object itself to be iterable, but the object also has other important properties - such as metadata about the list of items.

March 22, 2018

python