When Learning / Teaching new topics. ex. Typescript and Git

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Had a fun thought today around teaching others.

Curious to see if anyone violently disagrees. 🙂
Or violently agrees. Or has a more tempered reaction or adjacent take.
Feel free to post in the comments.

My hot take on learning/teaching things to set people up for success:

The key thing for you with learning typescript is to keep it as simple as possible.

Recently, I updated this gist to have a slightly larger amount of information: https://gist.github.com/MichaelDimmitt/2374778fbbfe4083c0c6fb88e80fb75f?permalink_comment_id=5525155#gistcomment-5525155

Hot take: Often, people know too much "git" is a good example.

For most people this is fine:

git add . 
git commit -m <message>
git push

If someone is doing more advances stuff and breaking things constantly that can be a problem.

It is fine to learn the more advanced git stuff and is how you get really goo. But when you head down that road you should learn git reflog first so that you can undo anything you break with reset hard to commit sha.

In the same way, learning to do crazy advanced type stuff is fine as long as you do research on how to debug typescript performance: https://gist.github.com/MichaelDimmitt/e8a04a4a835ed6ac7447927a424e48c0 - this one probably needs more work but is a starting place if people want to head that direction. To be honest, I just keep it simple with typescript so don't work on performance debugging too much.