[krsree]

Thanks! Reading and digesting this as a 2nd career developer. NOt trying to manage others but become good from average. I feel the most important take-away for me is this: The difference between the learner and the wizard is that you expect the learner to make a lot of mistakes. The system as built may be awkward or not handle error cases properly. That's okay. Training research shows that if you get speed now you can get quality later. But if you don't get speed you will never get quality in the long run.

and related

A person won't retain proficiency at a task unless he or she has at one time learned to perform that task very rapidly. Learning research demonstrates that the skills of people who become accurate but not fast deteriorate much sooner than the skills of people who become both accurate and fast.

I wonder if MIT 6.916 is available as a MOOC?