Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href="https://www.turing.io/">Jeff Casimir</a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/j3">@j3</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="podcast-episode"> <div class="subtitle"> Jeff Casimir talks with Dave Rael about education, feedback, software and people, and fortunate circumstances </div> <div class="podcast-summary"> <p>Stretching back to 2005, Jeff has more experience teaching Ruby and Rails than anyone in the world. Starting his education career with Teach for America in 2003, he’s taught middle school and high school, co-founded a middle school, and created Jumpstart Lab in 2009, Hungry Academy in 2012, and gSchool in 2013. Along the way he’s taught thousands of developers, taken nearly a hundred people from “no experience” to professional, and created over a thousand pages of instructional content. As the Executive Director of Turing School, Jeff designs the overarching instructional program, coordinates the instructional team, connects students with the community, directs the hiring process, and teaches full-group sessions.</p> </div> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and Jeff Casimir</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Origins of Turing School and stops on the path with creating other education opportunities</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Why Turing is different than other coding schools and bootcamps</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Characteristics of excellent software education and what it has in common with excellent software creation</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The mix of education and software development expertise in the instructors at Turing School</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Educational options and the danger of shallow learning resources</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Jeff's path to education</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Comparing teaching and programming and the emotional load of teaching</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The collaborative nature of programming</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Jeff on teaching computer science and how he engaged students</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Jeff's story of failure - acting according to fear, avoiding uncomfortable parts of the business of creating a school, and agreeing to a contact in haste</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The good fortune of being a programmer in an advantageous market</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Jeff's book recommendations</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Jeff's top 3 tips for delivering more value</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.turing.io/" target="_blank">Turing School of Software and Design</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-065-kathleen-dollard-relentless-dedication" target="_blank">Kathleen Dollard on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="https://codeopinion.com/" target="_blank">Derek Comartin</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-025-derek-comartin-have-a-voice" target="_blank">Derek Comartin on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.teachforamerica.org/" target="_blank">Teach For America</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-069-ari-meisel-do-less-to-get-more-done" target="_blank">Ari Meisel on Developer On Fire</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-book-recommendation"> <h6>Jeff's book recommendation:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143126563/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - David Allen</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0671027034/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-tips"> <h6>Jeff's top 3 tips for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>Figure out what people really want, not what they say they want or think they want</li> <li>Seek rapid feedback</li> <li>People are a more fun, rewarding, and difficult problem than software - build them up, the impact will last a long time</li> </ol> </div> </div>
