Pat Patterson, Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze
Code. I would say sample code is just essential. What I love about my job is that I'm continually coding, in many different programming languages. And I get a bit confused now, sometimes I start putting semicolons in my Python and things like that. As a teaching aid, didactic aid, I suppose I could say, code is invaluable. If you can give somebody something that runs, that solves something close to their problem, they've got a starting point that they can work from. These days, when you can not only point somebody at a GitHub repo, but you can point them at a Docker image that has a running version of that code, they can get started immediately. So, there is nothing better than working code for teaching a new concept.
