Mining Music Mentoring to Grow Good Devs
summary
Argues that music teaching methods map to developer mentoring and gives concrete practices: use Bloom's taxonomy and acceptance criteria as measurable learning outcomes, inventory preferred resources (books, videos, exercises) and feedback cadence per mentee, track outside pressures (the "poker chips" concept) that reduce practice time, and build taste by showing real production code, doing live pair programming and code analysis sessions. Recommends one or two testable changes—lesson plans, demo repos, scheduled pairing—and reports these scale in short cycles.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 1:23Feedback in tech education
- 2:49Music as complex abstraction
- 4:55Outcomes based learning
- 6:20Accommodating learning styles
- 9:50Outside influences on learning
- 12:16Developing taste and visibility
- 15:25Summary and resources
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