How to plan and create contents for beginners to learn programming?

How to Plan and Create Contents for Beginners?

KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid.

This is the principle I use (and have been using) on creating courses or tutorials for beginners to learn programming (or any other things).

It is difficult to make courses/contents for Beginners or Professionals. What do you think? Let me know in comment.

For me, I think it's a bit tricky but you have to focus and give more time while creating contents for Beginners. Because, they are fragile and in the first phase of learning something new and are in search of great courses/resources.

And in this world of Internet Technology, there is no lack of such contents. You can find plenty on Google or YouTube or e-Learning Platforms or somewhere else.

But the real obstacle is to find one, that is simple and easy to understand (I faced this problem). If unfortunately they find/get involved in a tutorial that's a complex, difficult to understand or incomplete, or did not get support when they are stuck.
Then this might lead to the death of their curiosity and learning interest. Sometimes, it happens with me till these days.

And in the case of professionals or intermediates, they can sense/find the better courses or switch the content, if they don't like it.

How I plan and create Courses for Beginners?

As I said earlier, I follow the KISS principle. So, if there's a course I want to make but might be complex, then I break them down into simpler multiple courses.

This way, whenever they complete a course, they get excited to learn more and passionately the next one.

Some them became so interested that they completed the whole course in couple of days and some have even implemented the learning in real time and started their own companies.

In addition to the completion of the course passionately, they also need support. And if they do not get the assistance when they seek, then the interest to learn may fade away slowly and stop learning at the end as well.

So, I always try to support them via DM, email, blog posts or on YouTube comments and sometimes on Team Viewer, Zoom and Skype if possible.

And if you want to be better at learning, then help others to learn, teach them what you've learnt so far. Don't wait to be perfect. I haven't seen anyone perfect.

Perfectionism is an Illusion.

Even, Practice makes you Better, not perfect.

Here is an example of How I make courses and contents for Beginners. In this C# Desktop Application Mega Course, I've taught to create 3 different applications (1 upcoming) with different complexity levels.

In each series, the complexity increases gradually but the foundation (basics) remains the same. So whenever one completes a tutorials series and starts the new one, it makes them easier to understand the flow, structures and patters.

Everything seems familiar and helps them to learn new things (features) with ease and without knowing that they are learning a new thing.

Let's see how the course is broken down into smaller chunks

Note: All of these courses are FREE, so I'm not trying to sell you anything

1. E Contact - Simple C# Desktop Application Development Tutorial Series

This is the first tutorial series and made for complete beginners in Software Development. To make is easier to understand by beginners, I have kept this tutorial series Short and introduced basic CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) Features.

Some of the things, I have tried to taught in this tutorial series are

a. Design and Implement simple relational Database
b. Design Desktop Applications in Microsoft Visual Studio
c. Create Classes, Methods/Functions and Objects in C# (C-Sharp) programming language
d. Introduction to Event-Driven Programming
e. Implementation of Theoretical parts (Add actual functionality to Insert, Select, Update and Delete in Database To/From UI (User Interface) of our App)

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2. How to Create Billing System in C#?

Along with the technologies and skills from the previous series, here are some new skills you'll learn in this series.

a. Design and Implement Complex Relational Database
b. Introduction to 3-tier Architecture (UI - User Interface, BLL - Business Logic Layer and DAL - Data Access Layer)
c. Basic Authentication (Login) in C#
d. Role Based Authentication (Different Views for Admin and Normal Users)
e. Inserting Data in Multiple Tables in a Single Event
f. Generate and Print Bills


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3. Blood Bank Management System in C#?

Similarly, you'll be using most of the skills from the previous tutorial series (BILLING SYSTEM) in this tutorial series as well.

But some of the new skills you'll learn here are as follows.

a. Design Modern, Clean and Flat UI
b. Upload, Save and Display Images
c. Update the values in Dashboard whenever the value changes on other modules (Users and Donors)

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4. Personal Finance App (Upcoming)

This might be the final tutorial series of "C# Mega Course". Here, along with the all the skills from previous courses, you'll implement some new cool skills in C# desktop application.

a. Simple and Easy to Use Design
b. Multiple User Accessibility (Register and Login)
c. Data Validation before Insert, Update, Select and Delete
d. Graphs Integration for Data Visualization


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Some Other Tutorials

Database for Beginners

Knowledge about the database technologies is fundamental skill to be a developer. Because if you want to create any app that stores data, then you need to have some level of knowledge about the database.

Like clean and scalable database design, migrate, backup, restore, grant permission, etc.

And Here I've tried to teach basics of the Relational Database.

a. Learn to Use MS SQL Server for Relational Database
b. Learn DDL (Data Definition Language) for Creating and Altering Databases and Tables
c. Learn DML (Data Manipulation Language) for Inserting, Selecting, Updating and Deleting data in Database.


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PHP and MySQli for Beginners

This is a Foundation course for beginners to learn and understand how websites works. Here you will be using PHP programming language and MySQL relational Database.

HTML and CSS is used to make web pages in this tutorial.

Learn to
1. Create Database using MySQL
2. Connect MySQL Database with PHP Web App
3. Create a Simple App that saves contact details (You can also Update and Delete later)

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Note: I'll be creating new tutorial series on designing web pages using HTML5, CSS3 and Bootstrap. And Web Apps using advanced technologies like Django (Python) and PHP/MySQLi.
If you don't want to miss any, then SUBSCRIBE to my channel.

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