Master programming fundamentals through cooking metaphors. Learn data and algorithms while building confidence in your coding skills, with practical insights for beginners.
This course teaches programming using the cooking metaphor, making complex ideas simple and relatable. You’ll learn the basics of programming languages and how to break problems down into manageable parts, setting you up for success as you dive into coding.
Learn how to program using the metaphors of how cooking and restaurants work.
In this course, you'll learn the fundamentals of how programming languages work. Using the metaphor of cooking and restaurants, you'll get concrete, plain english answers to questions like “What programming language should I learn?” and “What is programming?”
Programming courses and classes have some of the highest dropout rates of any professional domain...that's because the ideas are often presented in a very abstract way...Don't worry, this course is different. As long as you understand how a recipe works, you can understand how coding works.
At the most basic level, programming is two things: Ingredients and Preparation. That's our cooking metaphor...the words a programmer would use for these two terms are Data and Algorithms.
When you cook something, you are taking those raw ingredients and transforming them, cooking them, in some way to get a final result, the plated meal.
Your input is ingredients, your output is a plated meal.
A cookbook contains recipes, each with 2 parts. The ingredients are up top, and the preparation is below. Sometimes there is even a picture of what the final result will look like. Those 3 things, the input, transformation, and output, are the fundamental parts of both cooking and programming.
I spent a lot of time getting very frustrated when I was first starting out learning programming, and I almost quit a few times.
This course is about getting you past the initial stage of total confusion, which for many people lasts for the first few weeks or months of programming, to the next stage where you can learn at your own pace and feel confident knowing you have a solid foundational understanding so you can start to think like a programmer.
-TimothyUnderstand the basics of any programming language
Develop an outline and implementation plan for creating an app
Break a problem down to data and functions
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Timothy Kenny is the author of “Accelerated Learning for Entrepreneurs.” He teaches classes and speaks to groups about how to accelerate their learning so that they can build successful businesses faster and with more confidence in their success.  Timothy has taught at the Harvard Innovation lab, The Tufts University Entrepreneurs Society, General Assembly in Boston, and has been a featured...
As a long time chef redirecting my career into foodservice IT this was perfect! Easy to follow with clear course direction. Bon Apetit friends!
I really love the analogies and the examples used to explain basic concepts. I just wis the videos were a bit more interactive and dynamic.
yeah, so far
Takes three minutes to say what could be said in 30 seconds. Feels like he like to hear himself ramble.
This lecture is very nice. I teach a lot form it. I like it very much.
too much metaphor, too longwinded.
to make a simple point, you really don't need to say a long list of food...
it is clear enough, practical and funny
Very clear and engaging explanations on coding. Wish I had those lessons two years ago.
The course does not provide much insight in the technical aspects of coding. It is based upon a series of PowerPoint type slides that speak to the comparison between coding and cooking and lays out a basic framework for someone beginning to code. Although I agreed with the instructor's perspectives on the topic, it would be nice to see comparisons between the capabilities of the popular popular programming languages. This would provide the beginning student insight into the programming language he or she would like to pursue.
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Arvind V. D.
Great videos.Programming concept very well explained.