9.28 Programming 101

Hi Tom! (Or is it Professor Ripetti? Please let me know what you prefer) 

Great class. I love how clearly passiontate and energetic your energy is and that translates really well over a computer screen. 
Here's some feedback, and please of course take what is useful for you and discard the rest: 

1) Your internet is a little slow, I think - I couldn't see your screen as a sharp image almost the entire class. It would be fuzzy and then 
sharpen up. It may be worth taking a look at that for next time, otherwise its going to be really hard for the students to understand whats going on (myself included)
2) It may be worth doing an icebreaker at the beginning of class.  That way, people can get their ideas flowing and have it not be too high-pressure. 
Some great micro-structures for getting collaboration going quickly are at liberatingstructures.com -> I use these almost every time I present 
and they really get people talking :) My favorite one is ('Impromptu Networking')[https://www.liberatingstructures.com/2-impromptu-networking/]
3) I really liked how we were able to all popcorn off each other after a while.  But, I think if someone was new to programming, they may feel disenhartened, 
as this was pretty advanced stuff. I think starting with some reading about basic types (string, list, etc), before the first class, would be useful. 
4) I felt that some of the explinations moved really fast, almost a little faster than I could keep up with.  Would it be possible to either a) go a little slower or, even better,
b) retroactively reference what we're talking about a few times throughout the discussion, and also restating the question immediately after
somone asks it. 
5) Can you explain a bit more what your thought process is doing as your writing code? i.e. when you wrote the `while True` function, I could tell 
you were thinking lots of things and it would be useful to me to know what your thoughts were. 

Great class and I'm really excited to keep learning from you!