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by mettamage 1526 days ago
When I just graduated CS I started teaching a bootcamp. I was one of the best teachers and some of my students are having better careers than I do as a software engineer.

If I've learned anything: technical skills need to be medium, teaching skills need to be high. I also observed about 5 teachers (sitting in on their classes with their permission) and have seen teachers that have:

- high programming, high teaching skils (e.g. compiler construction, web-design, SIMD stuff, reverse engineering with x64, PHP, C++, trees with cycles, it didn't matter, he could do it)

- high web dev, low teaching skills (he got fired)

- high web dev, medium teaching skills, from a macho culture (he got fired, as I come from a more egalitarian/feminine culture)

- medium web dev, high teaching skills (he aced it)

- Myself