Three Types of Learning

My kids are playing chess. And they really eager to play it even better. Therefore I’m reading books about how to teach chess. Much of the advice in the book are really not that specialized on chess but are applicable for any kind of learning and training. One of those advices is: There are three [...]

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Help! Everybody around is as Stupid as I am. How do I improve my Skills?

So you are reading all these articles about Scala, TDD, Continuous Integration and so on and you are thinking: “This sure sounds cool, but how do I do it? Where do I start? Who can teach me?” The easy answer is: Join the local x User Group, where x is your preferred programming language. But [...]

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Teaching a Kid Scala

My son Finn is 6 and as pretty much every kid of that age he is wondering “What the heck is daddy doing all day”. Therefore I was wondering for some time how I could teach him a little programming. I first considered Alice or to be more precise Alice Storytelling. Unfortunately it wasn’t working [...]

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