June 11th, 2017

* I read Teaching tech, by eevee:
  https://eev.ee/blog/2017/06/10/teaching-tech/

  This is actually a really interesting post, since I just wrote a man page
  and a tiny guide for a project, and since I've gone through several
  programming books and courses. There's a bunch of sentences I'd take from
  that post; one of my favorites was "Too many concrete examples feel like
  rote memorization; too much abstract theory feels disconnected from anything
  tangible."

  I'd also think of this paragraph, though it's not quite as quote-like..
  "The trouble is that I doubt a beginner would walk away from this feeling
  very enlightened. They might be closer to having the game they wanted, so
  there’s still value in it, but it feels closer to having someone else do it
  for them."

* I watched A Simple Song, by patrickhadley:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3b1bz_9gEo

  I'd heard of the mbira but never seen one. It's quite the interesting
  instrument!