Teaching young dogs new tricks
The group I work in is composed of a lot of young whipper-snappers who came of age long after the Internet was created and have never known the joy of an acoustic-coupled modem, or figuring out the order of a set of punch cards that you dropped on the floor 5 seconds before putting them in the reader. As such, they are a bit wet behind the ears, and I’ve been asked to teach a little “architectural thinking” to them.
What I’ve got to manage to do, in 45-60 minutes is explain the basics of architectural decomposition (e.g,, business -> functional -> deployment architectures), as well as a brief introduction to UML with enough that they can make sense of existing models. As someone who thinks that many of the fiddly bits are needlessly confusing, I’ve got to figure out what to present and what not to present.
Fun ensues! I taught a draft today and it went over reasonably well, but I still feel the examples were too contrived.
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dropping cards on the floor… that’s why god reserved the last four columns for numbering. by ten’s. so when the first do loop doesn’t work, you can insert a couple extra lines of code without renumbering the whole thing.