Code Camp – Learn with the Exchange

Hey, instructors!  Do you want to learn how to code?  We do, too!  Come join the Exchange’s instructional designers as we learn the basics of scripting and start to write simple programs using JavaScript.  The plan is to head to Codecademy.com and then help each other troubleshoot as we all work through the modules together.  We’ll be progressing throughout the semester, so it’d be best if you could come to the first session and then keep coming.  However, we’ll be posting our progress on this blog, so, if you want to catch up and join us somewhere in the middle, that’s fine, too.  Either way, please register for the session so that we know how many people to expect.

It is worth emphasizing that NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE IS REQUIRED to participate.   We don’t know how to code either… yet.  However, coding is something that is increasingly second nature to our students. At the Exchange, we see Code Camp Spring 2014 as an opportunity to catch up a little and to work against the idea that learning new skills requires a sage on a stage or some other expert-led training session.  We think that learning new skills, technological or otherwise, requires only a playful spirit, willingness to embrace failure as something productive and fun, and a supportive network of friends and colleagues.  Come join us!  Good times!