A National Tragedy - What Teens Aren't Being Taught. A lot of interesting things have happened to me over the years - fodder for stories.
Today as I was reflecting about what parents do and do not teach their teens, I remembered one of those gems. I was 22 years old, and it was the morning after my bride and I had returned from our honeymoon road trip out West. For the first time in my life I asked my wife a simple question I would ask thousands of times throughout my life: "What would you like to do for breakfast? " The "Invent with Python" Blog — Nobody Wants to Learn How to Program. I frequently see a problem when people (especially techies) try to teach programming to someone (especially non-techies).
Many programming tutorials begin with basic programming principles: variables, loops, data types. This is both an obvious way to teach programming and almost certainly a wrong way to teach programming. It’s wrong because nobody wants to learn how to program. If you are teaching a class of adults who are paying with their own money for an education, then this is an appropriate and direct way to teach programming. It’s their money. Cougars. What To Expect When You're Expecting, Pregnancy, Baby, Babies, Toddler, Parenting. NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children (9780446504126): Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman.