安卓开发小学期
This year, after six fantastic years as a primary school teacher in London, I took the opportunity to reevaluate my life and career and take the first steps towards career-change. Months of soul-searching eventually led me to web development and to enrolling on Le Wagon’s intensive nine-week coding bootcamp. Why Le Wagon? Well, as the world’s #1 rated bootcamp there were plenty of reasons to choose them over their rivals. As for the answer to ‘why web development?’, I found this a little trickier to articulate.
今年，在伦敦担任小学教师六年后，我借此机会重新评估了自己的生活和职业生涯，并迈出了迈向职业转变的第一步。 经过几个月的深入研究，最终使我进行了Web开发，并加入了勒瓦贡( Le Wagon )长达9周的密集编程训练营。 为什么选择Le Wagon？ 好吧，作为全球排名第一的训练营，有很多理由选择他们作为竞争对手。 至于“为什么要进行网络开发？”的答案，我发现这有点难以理解。
At first, the leap from standing in front of a class of 8-year-olds to sitting in front of a screen-full of code seemed intangible, and I worried about what transferable skills I could bring to my potential new career. Teaching is an amazing profession and I will always be proud of my time as a teacher. It’s still very much a part of my life and I want to hold on to those skills throughout the rest of my career, whatever that may bring.
最初，从站在一个八岁大学生的面前跳到坐在一个充满代码的屏幕前的飞跃似乎是无形的，而且我担心我可以为自己的新职业带来哪些可转移的技能。 教学是一项了不起的职业，我将为自己的任职时间感到自豪。 这仍然是我生活的一部分，我想在整个职业生涯中坚持这些技能，无论可能带来什么。
I needn’t have worried; as soon as the bootcamp started I knew I had made the right decision. The logic clicked, concepts fell into place and I fell in love with the process of creating, testing, debugging, and ultimately making cool things that work. So what are the key takeaways for me as an ex teacher embarking on this journey, and why should other teachers looking at a career change consider coding?
我不用担心 训练营一开始，我就知道我做出了正确的决定。 逻辑点击了，概念就位，我爱上了创建，测试，调试并最终使有用的东西工作的过程。 那么，作为一名前任老师踏上这一旅程对我来说，主要收获是什么？为什么其他寻求职业转变的老师为什么要考虑编码呢？
The conceptual stuff
概念性的东西
When asked about my previous coding experience prior to starting the course at Le Wagon, I couldn’t point to much more than a distant youth messing around with HTML in the days of Geocities (anyone remember?). However, I almost missed something blindingly obvious: I have been teaching coding for the past six years!
当被问到我在Le Wagon开设课程之前的以前的编码经验时，我所指向的不只是在Geocities时代一个遥远的年轻人在用HTML弄乱的事情(有人记得吗？)。 但是，我几乎错过了一个显而易见的事情：在过去的六年中，我一直在教编码！
In line with the National Curriculum, 7-year-olds need to learn about algorithms and create and debug simple programs, and although this might seem light-years away from what needs to be learnt to become an adult full-stack developer, the basic concepts remain the same. The first few coding lessons that a Year 1 child will take part in will generally involve no tech at all: for the first lesson with my Year 1 class, I took them out into the playground, paired them up and asked them to give each other clear instructions (“walk forward three paces”, “turn left”). After all, coding is really just ‘giving computers instructions’. Once children get the basic concepts of what they are doing, they are then able to apply this to creating games, programming robots and all the other cool stuff that kids get to do with coding these days.
根据《 国家课程》 ，七岁的孩子需要学习算法并创建和调试简单的程序，尽管离成为成人的全栈开发人员所需要学习的知识似乎还差几年。概念保持不变。 一年级的孩子要参加的前几节编码课通常根本不会涉及任何技术：对于我一年级的第一堂课，我将它们带到操场上，配对并要求他们互相给对方明确指示(“向前走三步”，“向左拐”)。 毕竟，编码实际上只是在“给出计算机指令”。 一旦孩子们了解了他们所从事的工作的基本概念，他们便可以将其应用于创建游戏，对机器人进行编程以及如今孩子们与编码相关的所有其他有趣的东西。
This approach to understanding key concepts is mirrored in Le Wagon’s own teaching style and really helped me on my bootcamp journey. The same skills that helped me introduce coding to young children; using relatable analogies and ‘non-tech’ thinking, also helped me to see the bigger picture whenever I got stuck or bogged-down in a particular concept.
Le Wagon自己的教学风格反映了这种理解关键概念的方法，对我的新兵训练营确实起到了帮助。 帮助我向幼儿介绍编码的相同技能； 使用相关的类比和“非技术”思想，每当我陷入或陷入某个特定概念时，也有助于我看到更大的图景。
Communication
通讯
As a teacher I have always felt that communication was a strength; from forming constructive dialogues with pupils and fellow teachers, to public speaking in front of the classroom or assembly hall, and although the stereotype of the lone, anti-social coder is still pretty pervasive in popular culture, the reality couldn’t be further from the truth. From collaborating during whole-class live-code sessions, to tackling daily challenges with a partner, to the final group project; teamwork and communication is a key component of the Le Wagon journey, and a key skill for anyone looking to participate in a modern web development environment. The sheer amount of knowledge crammed into a 9-week course simply would not be possible to digest alone, without the help of Le Wagon’s dedicated teachers, teaching assistants and classmates, all with new and interesting insights, perspectives and ideas.
作为老师，我一直觉得交流是一种力量。 从与学生和老师的建设性对话，到在教室或礼堂前的公开演讲，以及尽管孤独，反社会编码员的陈规定型观念在流行文化中仍然很普遍，但现实离我们再远了真相。 从全班级现场代码会议期间的合作，到与合作伙伴一起解决日常挑战，再到最终的小组项目； 团队合作和沟通是Le Wagon旅程的重要组成部分，对于希望参与现代Web开发环境的任何人来说都是一项关键技能。 如果没有Le Wagon敬业的老师，助教和同学的帮助，他们将有9个星期的课程充斥着如此庞大的知识，这些知识都具有新颖而有趣的见解，观点和想法。
Accessibility
辅助功能
It’s a key requirement of all teachers to make sure their lessons and activities are tailored to all pupils, regardless of any barrier to learning that may exist, be that special educational needs, language needs or any number of other reasons. Within this context there’s an oft-quoted saying among educators: “Good SEN (special educational needs) teaching is good teaching”, or, create something that is accessible to all and those features will benefit everyone. I strongly feel that the same applies to web development.
所有教师的关键要求是确保针对所有学生量身定制课程和活动，无论是否存在学习障碍，特殊教育需求，语言需求或其他多种原因。 在这种情况下，教育工作者之间经常引用一句话：“好的SEN(特殊教育需求)教学就是好的教学 ”，或者创造一种所有人都可以使用的东西，这些功能将使所有人受益。 我强烈认为这同样适用于Web开发。
Accessibility in web design incorporates many considerations, from making sure websites and apps are usable on all devices, to ensuring that elements make sense to users with visual impairments using screen-readers. Throughout the web development learning journey, when cool new features become possible and creative ideas take shape, it’s often easy to overlook these principles. However, the bottom line is this: if your app doesn’t work for a user, then it’s failed at the first hurdle. As a teacher in web development I’ve come to realise that I am in a unique position to see these potential user barriers, and although the latest features and styles can really enhance your project, these can’t come at the expense of functionality and usability. If this puts me into the category of ‘boring’ developer, then so be it!
从确保网站和应用程序可在所有设备上使用到确保元素对使用屏幕阅读器的视力障碍用户有意义，Web设计中的可访问性包含许多注意事项。 在整个Web开发学习过程中，当一些酷炫的新功能成为可能并且创意形成时，通常很容易忽略这些原则。 但是，最重要的是：如果您的应用无法为用户使用，那么它首先会失败。 作为Web开发的老师，我已经意识到自己处于独特的位置，可以看到这些潜在的用户障碍，尽管最新的功能和样式可以真正增强您的项目，但这些功能和功能并不能以牺牲功能和可用性。 如果这使我进入“无聊的”开发人员类别，那就这样吧！
Throughout this journey I have discovered many transferable skills that I perhaps didn’t realise I had, and that will stay with me as I embark on my new tech career, whether I choose to stay close to the education sector or not. Of course Le Wagon have helped me immensely to nurture and develop these skills as well as learn new ones. My advice to other teachers looking to change careers would be to definitely consider web development and coding, and although any learning journey takes time, effort and commitment, you’re probably already more suited to it than you realise!
在整个旅程中，我发现了很多我可能没有意识到的可转让技能，并且在我从事新的技术职业时，无论我是否选择留在教育领域，这种技能都将伴随着我。 当然，Le Wagon极大地帮助了我培养和发展这些技能以及学习新技能。 我对其他寻求改变职业的老师的建议是，一定要考虑Web开发和编码，尽管任何学习过程都需要时间，精力和投入，但您可能已经比您意识到的更适合它了！
翻译自: https://medium.com/swlh/from-primary-teacher-to-developer-bbbc269c3367
安卓开发小学期
