April 2017 – Elizabeth Wickes

Advice for helping coding beginners in user groups: smile, don’t brain dump, and remember to shut up

I was recently asked to be a guest speaker talking to a Makerspaces class about teaching and supporting programming in the makerspace context. After writing up my notes and presenting, I realized that I have learned a lot in my three years with the Champaign-Urbana Python User Group (Py-CU). This blog post contains my generalContinue reading “Advice for helping coding beginners in user groups: smile, don’t brain dump, and remember to shut up”