software development - Coach Steve Brownlee

January 20, 2025

The First Principles of the High Value Software Developer

Much like a painting maestro would never hand beginners brushes and paint and tell them to start painting, beginner software developers should not be told that their primary goal is to write code.

December 06, 2023

learning

Pioneering Education Strategies in Software Developer Bootcamps: Cultivating Problem Solvers

This article explores how we integrate core problem-solving skills development into the experience, and how competence in code syntax is viewed as an important, but secondary, skill to learn.

December 04, 2023

learning

Pioneering Education Strategies in Software Developer Bootcamps: Introduction

In this first article of the "Follow the Science" series, you will learn about the goals of the series and get an overview of the concepts that will be covered.

November 02, 2020

lxd

Front-Loaded Learning

I was able to draw upon the rhythm of each instructor's delivery and attempt something that allowed each person's strengths to be maximized, and still deliver a great experience to the students.

August 02, 2020

svelte

Svelte Custom Stores for React Developers: Part 1

See how to use Custom Stores in Svelte to share application state across compoents. It's not that different than how you do it in React.

February 25, 2019

mindset

Docker and a Life a Failure

I've personally coached ~375 people down the path of becoming professional software developers. Many of them have marvelled at the comfo

February 04, 2019

education

You don't need to be good at math, but...

When students arrive for their first day of class at NSS, their brains have very different starting points for the logical thought processes and complex mental models that we ask them to build.

September 01, 2018

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