Danial
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- Hourly rate $30
- Response Time 2h
- Number of students 30
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Seasoned software engineer with +6 years industry experience teaching computer science and programming.
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About the lesson
Whether you are an experienced programmer looking for some help on an assignment, or that you want to get started learning to write code, I will be happy to assist you.
In a typical lesson we would work on a programming problem appropriate to your level together and I would guide you through solving it, teaching you techniques and skills along the way.
Rather than just teaching you language syntax, my goal will be educating you on computer science fundamentals and building your "programmer's intuition" so that you may thrive regardless of the specific "tech stack" you would be using in the future. It is better to build good habits so you write efficient, maintainable, elegant code.
Lastly, I will help you gain a better understanding of the software industry and the different career paths that are available (and are likely to be available considering how the industry is evolving).
Looking forward to hearing from you
Dan
subjects
- Computer programming
- HTML
- Python
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JavaScript
SQL
languages
- English
levels
- All Levels
About Danial
Hello there, and welcome!
My name is Dan. I obtained a Bachelor of computer Science from university of Waterloo in 2015 and I have been working full time as a software developer ever since. I'm looking forward to leveraging my knowledge and experience to help you reach your goals.
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5 (28 reviews)
Perfect! Danial helped me a lot while I was studying computer science. Whenever he taught me he had good energy and also taught me in a pace that was good for me. Overall, an amazing tutor who truly enjoys what he does.
Perfect! Danial is an efficient and excellent tutor. He explains concepts very well and does a thorough step by step plan to ensure you understand. He overtime to make sure the student totally understood. A teacher with Gold heart. Would recommend to everyone! :)
Perfect! Daniel is an experienced programmer who is also able to pass his knowledge in a clear and easy to understand way. Kudos
Perfect! Danial is an amazing tutor and a great guy! I had a last minute assignment I needed help with and he helped me through the whole thing. As well as explaining and answering all the questions I had. I highly recommend him!
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- See the response Danial : Good luck in your computer science studies Riley :)
Perfect! To say that Danial is a good teacher is an understatement, he is excellent. This man knows his stuff. It was a great to be able to learn from him, and I will definitely be working with him in the future.
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- See the response Danial : Christopher is a hardworking and motivated student with great attitude. keep up the good work!! :)
Perfect! Danial is very good at breaking large SQL problems into easy to understand steps. I found my session with him immensely helpful and look forward to learning more from him in the future.
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- See the response Danial : Caitlin is a self motivated and bright individual who is a pleasure to help :)
keep up the good work!
Perfect! Really great teacher, took the time to explain the platform and what I needed help with.
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- See the response Danial : Gaya is a self motivated and bright student who should keep up the good work!
Perfect! Dan is very detailed and helps you fully understand concepts with real-life examples. Highly recommend him. Thank you for your help!
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- See the response Danial : Jessica is a driven and hardworking student who should keep up the good work!
Elena
Perfect! Amazing tutor! I just started but I have confidence that after few lessons with Danial I will ace the class
Elena
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- See the response Danial : Elena is a motivated and hardworking student and should keep up the good work :)
Felix
Perfect! In just one hour, Danial literally bought me from 0 to 80~90 (out of 100) in terms of comfort level and understanding of fundamental SQL concepts.
He is extremely patient, and utilizes examples trained to really help reinforce the concepts he teaches - I got more out of Danial from a 1 hour online session than an 8 hour in-person class at my top 10-ranked MBA school (USA).
SO glad I was able to encounter Danial!!!!Felix
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- See the response Danial : Felix is a motivated and highly intelligent student who will definitely succeed if he remains steadfast!
Sujin
Perfect! Danial is very good at explaining things as well as being very patient with how he explains the material. something i dont understand he went over again. also, I went in with specific things that I wanted to get done for my assignment and he helped me. Also, he tired to makes me understand concepts. He was very helpful! Thank you so much Danial!
Sujin
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- See the response Danial : Sujin is a hardworking and driven student who should keep up the good work! :)
Marko
Perfect! Excellent at explaining and funny.
Marko
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- See the response Danial : Enthusiastic student with solid fundamentals and good attitude
Sharlene
Perfect! He helped me with my assignment in detail, breaking down each concept and allowing me to perform them. Very helpful, I was able to learn a lot in a short period of time!
Sharlene
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- See the response Danial : Sharlene is a bright, motivated and hardworking student and was able to maintain focus and attention throughout the lessons even though our lessons were somewhat long and at the end of day. Best of luck :)
Perfect! Provided exceptional industry insight and gave me a really good understanding of where I should take my learning next
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- See the response Danial : Cassel is a keen and proactive student. He asked good follow up questions which showed good engagement.
Perfect! This guy... I took 5 sessions with Dan. It was enough to land me a coding job. It sounds crazy but it's the honest truth. Dan makes sure you understand the topics he teaches you. Like, you think you understand a topic, but he assigns you homeworks that when you try to do, just then do you understand what's going on. If you take classes with Dan, you can rest assured that you are learning what the spirit of coding is meant to be.
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- See the response Danial : passionate, motivated and hardworking student.
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I worked with Dan at a professional software company for just over 2 years. He mentored me and was always willing to go out of his way to help me get acquainted with the system and teaching me the ropes. He is always super friendly and very knowledgeable, and I wouldn't be where I am today without his help.
Dan is patient and does a great job of explaining things in different ways if one way doesn't quite stick.I worked with Dan for 3 years as the senior engineer on his team. He was very involved with onboarding new team members and mentoring co-op students. He is able to explain things well to help new developers get up and running quickly and starting contributing code changes. He has an attention to detail, and really cares about good code quality. It was a pleasure working with Dan!
I was Dan's manager at a high-tech startup, where Dan was a professional software developer for over 5 years. In that time, Dan mentored other developers and interns, and gave many technical presentations to his colleagues.
Dan takes great delight in sharing his knowledge of coding with others; he explains things clearly and fully, and has a wealth of practical experience to draw on. I highly recommend Dan as a tutor for coding and computer programming.Dan is very detailed and helps you fully understand concepts with real-life examples. Highly recommend him. Thank you for your help!
I had the pleasure of working with Dan for two years.
He is detail-oriented and quite patient when he is teaching.
During the two years that we worked together, he helped me multiple times when I got stuck with different subjects, and Dan was always there to help me out even on topics that I was supposed to know better than him.
He has the talent to show the simplest answer to your questions on your level of knowledge. So, it does not matter if you are a beginner or an advanced student, he will be a great fit.Dan was great! He not only had a vast knowledge base of computer science, Dan was also very patient and adjusted the syllabus and teaching style through our time together to better serve each student's needs. The three of us in the class were at different skill levels but Dan went above and beyond to help each student gain a thorough understanding of not just python but coding languages as a whole. Dan offered extra help as well as personalized coding problems to help us strengthen our weakest points. I would highly recommend Dan, no matter what skill level you are at. Thank you Dan, you shall be seeing more of me!
Dan is a great mentor for programming. Dan and I worked at software company; and he was my mentor at that time. As a team member, he is a knowledgable and professional software developer. As a mentor, he is always patient and explaining the underlying logic in details.
Elena
Danial is an exception tutor! I am very new to programming, and the Python course I am taking is very fast paced, and I was very concerned how I could succeed. Danial is very knowledgeable, patient in taking time to go over every single point in detail and answering all my question (there were a lot), and overall a very nice guy to talk to. He is also very accommodating to schedule almost last minute and sometimes going over time if needed. I cannot be happier that I found him! Will def continue my lessons with him for other classes and would recommend him to anyone.
Elena
Danial is such a patient, and helpful coding tutor. He comes up with great assignemnts, explains everything slowly and clearly -- an incredibly knowledgeable teacher.. couldn't recommend him more!
Danial has outstanding programming skills, and he is super kind. We worked together in a professional software company and Danial helped mentoring me. I learnt a lot from him, he is knowledgable and always willing to help.
Eliot
Danial is an excellent teacher! He does a great job of adapting the difficulty level for each student as we're taking his lessons as a group. It feels like everyone is able to learn at their own pace, without sacrificing efficiency. Danial is particularly good at providing assignments that helped me learn outside of direct 1-on-1, freeing up the time we do spend together to focus on the actual issues. A great use of reverse-classroom. Highly recommended!
Eliot
Dan is a great teacher, and I don't say that lightly. It feels like he's compelled to make you understand the topic he's teaching, and the significance of it, and where and why it should be applied. His lessons often are long but deep. What you learn in one session really sticks, especially in programming where you get overwhelmed by so many options and learning programs.
Stick to this one coz this one works.
Reba
Dan is a very knowledgeable software developer with over 10 years of experience in computer science. He tailors every lesson to whatever you need to work on and always ensures that you leave the lesson confident with the material covered. Whether you are a high-school or university student or looking to brush up on some new skills Dan will be able to help you out.
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- 5 h: $140
- 10 h: $280
webcam
- $ 30/h
free lessons
- 1hrs
Find out more about Danial
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When and why did you develop an interest in your chosen field?
I wrote my first program at age 12. It was an html page to pay tribute to the video game that had captured my heart and my imagination (The Neverhood). My only guide having been a short introductory book to HTML, I had to work through a great deal of confusion and frustration to finally achieve my intended outcome. However, when I got a first taste of what it feels like to create original content with code, my fascination with computers grew irreversibly.
Although I don't play a ton of video games these days, I must say they were key to my growing interest in programming. By the time I was in high school, I dreamed of becoming a video game programmer. "C++: how to program" by Deitel became the first formal textbook on the topic I began studying on my own after finding out the "Turing" programming language that was taught in my highschool coding class was not exactly appropriate for developing games 🤣
These experiences lead me to pursue a bachelor of computer science from the University of Waterloo...02
What makes you passionate about your subject?
Computer science introduces so many fascinating concepts (various algorithms, data structures, etc) that I often find clever, elegant, ingenious, even beautiful. There is something to be said about a discipline where theorems can be formally proven in a mathematically rigorous fashion; a discipline where we (as humankind) have created everything there is to a digital computer and thus can justifiably consider our knowledge as being absolute.
Beyond these considerations, programming combines rigorous logic with a refreshing element of human creativity. The sense of satisfaction from building a functioning system entirely out of code is what drives the passion for so many programmers.03
What do you like about tutoring? What makes you a "Superprof"?
I find enjoyment and satisfaction in using my skills and experience to empower other people and making a positive difference in their lives.
I've been teaching and mentoring for quite some time. In highschool I regularly helped other students with mathematics (I did 40+ hours of volunteer tutoring as well as tutoring professionally). Throughout university and my professional career as a full stack web developer I have never shied away from mentorship opportunities that were presented to me.
I believe my attitude and enthusiasm, as well as my knowledge and experience have been instrumental in attaining the "Superprof" designation.04
Do you have any role models; a teacher that inspired you? Please explain
I've been blessed with the opportunity to learn from many inspirational teachers/professors/mentors in my life.
A few examples:
Mr. Jason Beggs: My English teacher in high school who was so passionate about the literature he taught in class he read it regularly in his own leisure time. He was also a Rugby coach. He was an eloquent academic and caring teacher in class, a force of nature on the Rugby field and a consummate gentleman at all times.
Dr. David Porreca:
Professor of classical and medieval studies at university of Waterloo whose lectures were so fascinating that one could barely notice passage of time as he revealed a glimpse of his vast treasure of knowledge and wisdom each class. His lecture slides were deliberately high-level and minimal. The lecture content was largely decided by what questions the students asked and which direction the discussions took, as he drew fascinating insights by comparing and contrasting seemingly unrelated historical events.
Dr. Gordon Cormack:
Computer Science professor at university of Waterloo who was a master of taking an extremely complex and challenging topic and breaking it down to small, concisely elaborated segments. Teaching a class how to write a C compiler in MIPS assembly code is no easy task, but every slide of every lecture, every word that came out of his mouth was carefully chosen to convey important ideas and eradicate misunderstandings and ambiguities. One had to pay full attention and take care not to fall behind, but doing so, they would be rewarded with in depth, sound understanding of what it means when they say "everything in a computer is made of 0s and 1s"
... and many other instructors/mentors I've had the pleasure of learning from...
Each exceptional educator had their own unique approach and philosophy, but what they all had in common was unmistakable passion for their field of study and uncompromising dedication to sharing their knowledge to the best of their ability.05
What are your keys to success?
My success as an instructor is defined by the progress made by my students and their satisfaction with the learning experience.
In order to maximize learning efficiency, each lesson is tailored to the student's proficiency level and learning style.
I often use accurate analogies that capture the "key idea" in every topic I'm discussing in a bid to simplify complex topics as much as possible before proceeding to explain it in a more detailed and analytical fashion.
Patience also plays a major role in an educator's success. I'm always happy to go over a topic again, explaining it differently if I need to. I encourage my students to interrupt me mid-explanation if they need further clarification on anything and I remind them there is no such thing as a stupid question in my class.
Lastly, I think my academic and professional experience help me offer practical career advice as well as guidance about coding best practices. It is always easier to learn how to write professional grade code from the start than to have to unlearn bad habits.
