I just watched a nice presentation by Yahoo evangelist Christian Heilmann who opened the show at FF09 yesterday. Whilst there’s a lot of good ideas throughout regarding the maintainability of JavaScript code, one nugget stood out about code tutorials. Christian Suggests a four pronged presentation strategy when writing tutorials for designers – it [...]

I was tickled to read in Teaching by Lecture of what N. Whitman calls the four levels of competency. The levels advance thus (my paraphrasing in parenthesis):

Unconscious incompetence (you don’t know you can’t do it)
Conscious incompetence (you know you can’t do it)
Conscious competence (you know how to do it)
Unconscious competence (you can do it, [...]