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Teaching What I Know

The one thing that I've always joined is helping people.  So when I get to help someone learn something I have no problems with doing so.  I may not be the best at conveying things sometimes, but I do my best to make sure that there is at least some understanding by the time I'm done.

The one thing that I've always done is taught by being jokey in the way I go about it.  Unfortunately, a lot of the times it makes me come off as an old man as the things that I tend to teach is stuff that for most people goes over their head.  I forget that even with the people I work with or the people that have had questions about things I do, they same basic train of thought doesn't always exist.

It would be like someone trying to explain rocket since to a marine biologist.  Both people are smart and good at what they do, but they live in different worlds and think differently.  I tend to have to dumb things down and I worry that I sometimes I come off as I'm talking down to someone or insulting their intelligence, when I'm just trying to explain things in a way that is easier.

Just today I had to explain, what is to me, some very basic code.  I realized that even some of the stuff that I thought was easier and known before hand actually wasn't so I had to explain extra stuff.  Not bad though.  In fact the person was curious about things and asked why things did what they did.

I love that type of stuff.  It must be what a teacher feels when a student actually seems to take interest in what they are teaching.  Makes you want to make sure that you get everything across as best as you can.

I also came up with a fun way of explaining how one thing is basically listening, waiting for the piece of code to make its call so that it could do its thing.  Thankfully I didn't give the full explanation about how the one piece of code was a lot like me: waiting, hoping for someone to call it so it could show off all that it has to offer.  And for some events, it never gets called.  But every so often it does and it finally gets to do what it does best.

To bad fixing a person is not as easy as fixing a piece of code.  Although I guess even fixing some code can be a pain in the butt.  Especially when you don't find out that it's broken until it's too late.

Oh, the fun things that you could use to describe something to someone.  I wouldn't suggest something like that though.  Usually something happier does a better job.  Maybe if I ever get bored/tired with what I'm doing I could teach it instead.  Would have to get over the issues I have with talking in front of a group of people though.

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