New topic to capture the discussion about the best way to teach people that emerged in Link to a very basic tutorial about TCP (evolved to: TCP-socket democode to send / receive data / characters similar to serial around reply #85. As is often the case with these things there is no clear point whe…

[image] J-M-L: I’ve an offer to put this to rest :: Can we agree we can drop 9600 in Serial.begin() in the examples and move to 115200 ? I have mixed feelings about that, I totally agree with the sentiment but my doubts come from being concerned that it's one more thing for someone to get wro…

[image] J-M-L: I’ve an offer to put this to rest :: Can we agree we can drop 9600 in Serial.begin() in the examples and move to 115200 ? I do have an objection there. If Serial would be just used to communicate using a UART on both sides there is no problem of course, but in that case, why st…

[image] UKHeliBob: depends entirely on the context of the question being asked here, most of which are syntax errors, missing curly braces, superfluous semicolons, missing libraries and arrays addressed out of bounds Yes, about that: How about just a single thread dedicated to most popular co…

Interesting topic! The whole issue seems to be related to the following paradox: saying only the minimum necessary or instigating the other's mind to fly higher. I believe that the forum user group is heterogeneous enough for both approaches. [image] Perehama: doesn't that evangelize and perpe…

[image] Brazilino: I can. Some years ago I was given the task to teach Calculus to people who had failed education during their youth. How'd that go? Were you able to comprehensively cover the typical syllabus of a standard CALC I course? How long did it take?

[image] Brazilino: I had to simplify a lot, specially on integrals and the course took 1.5x the time. I'm impressed that you were able to cover it that quickly. Here's how I imagine a typical day would go: TEACHER: Today we will cover taking the derivative of trigonometric functions. CLAS…

they often ask ZERO question...

[image] gfvalvo: When you teach any subject, you must assume that your audience has some base level of knowledge. That’s why @StefanL38 's request that all tutorials take everything down to the lowest (“beginner’s”) level is unrealistic. Interesting discussion; however everyone seems to accept…

[image] mrburnette: Interesting discussion; however everyone seems to accept that the response to Ops is a "teaching moment" and not an "answering-only moment." Agree. but the genesis of this thread was a request for the former.

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Brazilino April 15, 2022, 3:11pm 23

I had to simplify a lot, specially on integrals and the course took 1.5x the time. But I was happy with the results.

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