Loved this live stream! The difficulties of the instructor made it a kind of more user-friendly with the continuous problem solving there and that time.
It was much better than a perfect one, when everything looks smoothly practiced and just repeating it, while only we the users having the problems at home, who are doing at the first time and feeling like amateurs.
It gives the idea that put a Master into new circumstances to force him making mistakes, forgetting things here and there, troubleshooting in limited timeframe, then the Students can learn much more from that reality.
@theluthier It was great to see you Kent, you have nothing to prove or apologize, really enjoying this style which comes from the undeground real life :-)
Ahhh thanks so much csehz. I'm glad you enjoyed the stream even with the mistakes - I mean - problem solving 😊
I agree with csehz regarding live troubleshooting/problem solving.
There needs to be a healthy balance, not too much of a "perfect" example because it frustrates beginners who struggle to relate AND keep up, and not too much time stumbling because it frustrates the more advanced users haha.
Example of wasting too much time:
I had an engineering "professor" who was hired to do research and the admin of my university "gave" her a teaching assignment in an unrelated field to her expertise because, well, someone had to teach the class so why not her (don't get me started on that). I specifically remember her writing out a homework problem she had assigned us all (and one that everyone had already spent hours struggling with on their own) only to watch her flop in front of the whole class halfway through. She couldn't solve it. And she didn't know what to do. She even said under her breath "I never should have started this problem" while the whole class sat back in bewilderment...…….great example of the other end of the coin we don't want to be at as students.
Case in point. It is fun a watch experts like @theluthier stumble and troubleshoot because we get to see them "experiment" with problem solving. IT is very valuable training for beginners. That is a kind of teaching in an of itself if you ask me. Troubleshooting is my full-time job for engineering and it is quite fun to find creative solutions that don't always fit in a perfect box.
Something you won't see in a "pre-recorded" perfect video. I say keep them coming Kent!
Thank you, Shawn! Ugh I can't imagine being in the classroom situation you described..how utterly embarassing and a waste of everyone's time and $.
As much as I'd like to be perfect the reality is I'll always have to troubleshoot in streams to some degree. Still my goal is to only allow as much as is educational and nowhere near the level of that professor 😅