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Most skills will never be learned without actually DOING the skill. Duh. It's basic training 101 that if it's too expensive or too dangerous to simply practice a skill many, many, times, then you the design should include a simulated version of the skill. And all knowledge can only be valuable to a business if it is applied to the work being done. Well, coding skills and knowledge are neither dangerous nor expensive for learners to practice. And because of that fact, proving proficiency in coding skills should be easy to do. Or is it?Brent Newhall joins us to talk about how the value of implementing a project-based assessment strategy will improve your training outcomes. After all, if they can't do the work by performing on a fake project, how are they going to handle the real projects? Brent will share his case study implementing a project-based assessment program for the Capital One Developer Academy's coding bootcamp.This is another special episode of IDIODC where we get the chance to introduce you, the IDIODC community, to one of your peers who is out in the wild, doing the work. Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on Twitter. Remember you can always stay in the loop by searching through the #IDIODC tag:Brent: @BSchlenkerChris: @Chris_V_WIDIODC: @TeamIDIODC Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow
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D&D 5e allows for playable Dragonborn, but so far lacks much information about the race. In this episode, Klaatu briefly talks about Draconic races since the early days of DragonLance, and then discusses the rich alternate history for the Kala, as developed by indie game designer Brent Newhall. shasum -a256=fc96b0a1ec3bd2db1d174e7b47bb76745dea11af8c6c774094ced39b75040e5f
NOTE: IF YOU CAME HERE BY GOING TO TROLLITC.COM/GE19 EXPECTING TO FIND THE SHOW NOTES FOR JONATHAN’S 5 FAVORITE STAR WARS NOVELS, YOU’RE GONNA HAVE A BAD TIME. JONATHAN IS A GOON WHO MESSED UP. EPISODE 20 CONTAINS HIS 5 FAVORITE STAR WARS NOVEL. JUST CLICK THE LINK AND YOU’LL… Read More» The post GE19: Favorite Sci-Fi Shows with Brent Newhall appeared first on Geeks Explicitly.
Ben Gerber & Brent Newhall cover for Jonathan while he’s engaged with real life stuff for his first home. Brent and Ben sneer at real life, preferring to spend our time on the internet. Where it’s virtual, and friendly. They do what comes naturally, which is talk about themselves. They… Read More» The post GE17: Meet Ben and Brent appeared first on Geeks Explicitly.