Secondary Lecture Topics

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Human Learning: To learn, you should...
- Get related knowledge in advance
- Expect to exert effort
- Try before being taught
- Review when memory is stale
- Scar in moderation
- Retrieve rather than re-expose
- Interleave topics
- Elaborate rather than repeat
- Study concept over implementation
- Use short feedback loops
Agile Practices
- Iterate with rigorous data collection and reflection
- Estimating is hard
- Hammer-user vs. shiny-object
- All code becomes legacy code
- Debugging is everywhere
- Data-first vs. behavior-first
- Start small
- Style matters early (sadly)
- Consider technical debt
git and GitHub Practices
- init, add, commit, push
- fork, clone, pull, .gitignore
- pull, branch, merge, stash
- branch, pull request, merge
- Common git workflows (e.g. Gitflow)
- reset, rebase, filter-branch