Brainstorming a curriculum for beginners

[lukevmorris]

Heya ElixirBridge,

I did some brainstorming at the workshop yesterday for a potential beginner's curriculum. I have a general outline of two units. There are a few goals here:

• Introduce domain modeling as soon as possible as a means of grounding the material
• Find the most efficient path to "Coder MVP", exclude all info that's unnecessary to get there
• Students need a reason to care about a new concept -- in general, before introducing a new concept, try to communicate the pain/problem that the concept is solving
• When introducing a new concept, prefer a wide range of examples over definitions
• After a new introduction, have the class immediately apply that knowledge with an exercise. Where possible, incorporate previous concepts into the exercise

Whatcha think?

[aneyzberg]

This is awesome thank you so much for doing this! @photomattmills what do you think?

[photomattmills]

This is a good outline, but I'm not sure what we should do with it... I'm fine merging and fleshing out sections. We should probably meet and do a workday and overhaul the site as it is; I noticed the sidebar and prev/next buttons are sort of borked at the moment.

[lukevmorris]

I'm happy leaving it in PR until it's more fleshed out, if that's what you would prefer to do. I have some free time soon to mold them a bit more.

Still have to decide what a function writing exercise might look like. And still noodling on where to go afterward