Does this work the other way around?
People tell me I'm an excellent teacher, but I'd consider myself a mediocre developer...
People tell me I'm an excellent teacher, but I'd consider myself a mediocre developer...
Whether this is actually the case or not is debatable.
The head master at the time was an ex-PE teacher.
Teaching is a serie of small sessions, each connected but still, they have their own close little finish line.
So if you are a procrastinator or have a hard time finishing, you may be a good teacher and yet a mediocre dev
And i have yet to met a teacher who's anywhere close to have the deadline challenge a dev has.
Somebody not learning is a failure but that's life. A line of code not working on time, well, that's the entire product not shipping.
I can code for several days before having something that will make someone smile.
I mean, people are bad-to-mediocre when they begin to learn something per definition, so when I teach them, I teach them from their perspective? :D