tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121427112011-12-14T18:45:09.125-08:00Sarath Chandra Knoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12142711.post-1113376886661845752005-04-13T00:11:00.000-07:002005-04-13T00:21:26.663-07:00For the past few months I had been in a very difficult state of mind. Needed some way to vent a few creative thoughts and to share these with people and feel good about it.<br /><br />So last month I started teaching a group of students JAVA (some thing that I have been using for the last 10 years, with my own thoughts accumulated over a period of time that I wanted to share with these students.) This course was targetted towards novice programmers with or without prior expertise with JAVA or any othe programming language.<br /><br />The goals of the course were to enable the students to learn concepts, use them in excercises and real life scenarios and complete a project using Extreme Programming methodologies.<br /><br />With so many JAVA Traning centers and so many run of the mill trainers, I wanted to add some value to the course to differntiate this course from the others. To make a difference and make it a intellectually satisfying experience for both the students and myself.<br /><br />So I thought for this course I should introduce MindMapping to the students and also use it extensively in my lectures. This is a techniques that had been developed some time in the 60's and is very effective learning/ note taking technique.<br /><br />I have been using this for the past couple of years and wanted to propogate this to the students to ensure that at the end of the course:<br /><br /><ul> <li>The students will go back with the thrill of actually learning some thing new. </li> </ul> <ul> <li>The students will be able to use MindMapping as a tool for effective concept/thought documentation.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Build their own mind maps for various java concepts, each on a single sheet for easy reference later in their career.</li> </ul><br />This is where I am planning to document my thoughts, experience MindMapping JAVA and also teaching MindMapping as an effective tool for programmers to remember concepts and recollect them in the right context.<br /><br />Sarath.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12142711-111337688666184575?l=mindmapped.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Sarath Chandra Knoreply@blogger.com4