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Greg Wilson committed Aug 10, 2014
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or they say, "Wait, how did you do that?" or,
"Can you please slow down, I can't keep up,"
you're no longer actually helping them.


**Don't take over the keyboard.**

When you go around helping people out as they work
on the material, never put your hands on a learner's
computer. It's too easy to step in and do a few
quick changes that they can't follow and certain
groups of learners will never say that this makes them
uncomfortable - or ask questions.

**Never copy and paste.**

It's easy to find code snippets on the web
but impress upon learners that part of what
they are learning is the muscle memory of
doing the text input. To drive this home, you
could show them an example of `rm -rf /` in a sandbox
just to make it clear that there are risks
to running code you don't understand.

**Don't ignore feedback.**

The feedback you get from learners on sticky notes or through
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