Gregory Nelson

Ground the teaching of style and code clarity through the experience of reading unfamiliar code to provide meaningful motivation for students.

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Teach students that if they need to explain their code for someone else to understand it, they should think about how to change the code to make it readable.

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Set expectations during workshops for a focused classroom by redirecting off-task behavior and showing students how to take their work to the next level.

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Remind students that each problem relies on a specific set of knowledge; not understanding a particular problem doesn't mean they’re stupid, it’s an opportunity to work hard and learn more.

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Get students' thinking aligned with the Ruby on Rails community values by introducing them to community resources like Github, forums, and screencasts, for example http://railscasts.com/.

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Highlight the basic syntax and semantics of Ruby on Rails without referencing complex external concepts like closures and blocks to enhance beginning students learning to code them quickly.

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Illustrate the steps a user-action travels through in the Ruby on Rails framework, from making a request at the browser to returning a response, to help students learn create a meaningful mental model.

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