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EVENT DETAILS |
This is a two-day intensive workshop, from 6-9pm December 14th and 15th.
How long have you wanted to learn how to read and write your own code? Have you been frustrated by online classes, been taken in by the promise of easy learning on your own time, and came away from the lessons with little understanding and more confusion than you started with?
The Coding For Beginners workshop can teach anyone with determination and an open mind all the basics needed to write code. This workshop is for everyone, whether you're completely unfamiliar with coding or already know a programming language or two. Our approach is to help you understand computing languages from first principles, in a holistic way that will fill in gaps in knowledge for self-taught programmers and get beginners off on the right foot. We've had project and tech managers and VCs who wanted to understand what writing code was really like, coders who know other languages but who wanted to learn Python, and people just looking to kickstart their own self-directed learning of programming attend, and they've all left satisfied!
Come to our hands-on, intensive, two day workshop and learn in a small group setting where you will get personal attention from an instructor who will answer any and every question you have about computers and programming, and will help you every step of the way. You will leave this workshop with all the technical tools and knowledge you need to read and write your own software. Here are the topics you'll explore:
- The history of computers, from ancient to modern times
- How a modern computer works, from hardware to software
- Running commands in your computer's operating system
- Using a package manager to install programming tools (Homebrew)
- Programming language basics and using an interpreter
- Creating programs using step-by-step outlines
- Researching and reading documentation
- Installing third party software libraries
- A brief introduction to advanced programming concepts
Please note that this workshop is not about building web sites or using HTML or other markup languages or any other form of front end design; we will primarily use the Python programming language. Python is best described as a back end technology and the workshop is all about how computers work under the hood with programming.
You must bring a laptop. MacBooks with Mac OS X (10.7 or greater, the version called Lion) preferred because they already come pre-installed with all the tools you need to get started programming immediately. Step by step instructions will be provided prior to start of the workshop to help you get your laptop ready for programming if you don't have a Mac. Attendees will not be able to follow along with learning Unix commands if they're working on a Windows laptop.
[Light and healthy refreshments will be served during both workshop sessions. We will try to be sensitive to any dietary restrictions, allergies, or other requirements.]
About the Instructor:
Mike Caprio has been a product-focused software engineer for his entire career, since graduating with a Bachelors in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Over the last two decades he has been employed as an engineer and consultant across a wide swath of industries, developing a broad and diverse range of experience working at Fortune 50 companies like ExxonMobil and Johnson & Johnson, and as an innovation consultant for the American Museum of Natural History, eBay, TIME Inc., and Viacom.
Mike is a community leader in the exclusive, worldwide StartupBus network of top tech professionals (a community which produces what is widely considered the world's most difficult hackathon across four continents). He was also the founder and local organizer of the 1700+ member Space Apps NYC chapter of the NASA Space Apps Challenge (NASA's own incubator innovation program and the world's biggest global hackathon) and produced the first five Space Apps NYC hackathons. Starting in 2014 Mike began producing hackathons for AMNH BridgeUp: STEM including the Hack The Universe and Hack The Dinos events to advance open science. He has been a published regular columnist and a featured contributor in multiple periodicals.
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