brainstormed essay about learning to code

I continued my theme of brainstorming/mind-mapping this morning, but with a different essay and also a different medium. The essay topic is learning to code and the medium is a neat platform called coggle. In addition to being easy to use, it also is markdown-based, you can see a history of all previous edits, and it's real-time collaborative. Basically everything I'd want. You can see [my mind map here](https://coggle.it/diagram/Wh6pe8X_9wABwTVA). And here's a picture of it just in case that link doesn't work:

![screenshot 2017-11-29 at 11 36 58 am](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2288939/33386902-082b31ba-d4fa-11e7-8aec-730f05df0e0f.png)

Very productive. Really love the medium. One thing I noticed is that part of why mind-mapping software is difficult is that you have to go from abstract to concrete as opposed to being able to list arbitrary nodes and connect them later. I am currently side-stepping this problem by creating a "TODO" toplevel node that I can connect random stuff to until I can tell where they are going to best fit in the map.

Spent 3ish hours on it this morning. It also worked great on my iPad, which was really nice. The downside is that I forgot my ergonomic iPad keyboard so I typed on it too much and now my hands hurt a bit.

I am realizing that unlike Prezi, there's no notion of "path" to this tool, but I bet I can approximate it by creating a few different duplicates of the base map, and then in the copies, laying out the nodes in various orders. (You can put the nodes wherever you want and the relationships between then will just follow, staying connected.)

I'm going to go get a workout in now, then I have a meeting with someone who wants advice on coding curriculum design with is quite relevant given what I did this morning, and then I chat with Aidan, founder of DropSource.

Author: stevekrouse

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