I’ve been reading through all of the great comments about school credibility and I had a few questions of my own. We just started a local chapter of Girl Develop It here in Utah. Our main goal is to create a community for women who may be a little unsure about tech or just need support and encouragement to enter and/or grow within the field. We also provide classes for those who may not have the time/money/etc to attend a traditional college, but need skills so they can enter the workforce.
I was wondering what your opinions were on the type of programs, ours and those similar, that provide non-traditional tech training? Specifically, I’m looking for where you think these programs fail or succeed and what specifically we should be teaching our members who want to become developers. There’s a lot of criticism about code.org and I have to say I agree with a lot of it. Coding is more than just learning a language. There are a lot of underlying principles and I feel like abstract thinking and problem solving are some of the key skills that are being glossed over in favor of “let’s simplify the process as much as we can to get more people pursuing this”. What are your thoughts and what kinds of things can we do to improve these forms of non-traditional education? ~Stacie _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
