Learning along with CodeNewbie

As part of the Code and Cake workshop(http://railsgirlsberlin.de/code-cake/) at SwitchUp(https://www.switchup.de/) in Berlin I had an opportunity to share my experiences of being involved with the CodeNewbie community and also briefly sharing info about how the community can be useful to people(new or experienced) who are interested in learning to code in a specific language. I'm thankful to the organisers of Code Curious, our generous hosts for the event - SwitchUp and Liefery and also the participants of the workshop for the opportunity :)

Transcript

1. Learning Along with CodeNewbie Mohnish G Jadwani !1
2. Programming - Frontend Mohnish G Jadwani !2
3. Programming - Frontend Mohnish G Jadwani !3
4. Learning a new language can be challenging and fun This learning journey can be - thrilling and yet sometimes deeply uncomfortable !4
5. How I started learning Ruby and Elixir? - Learning by Reading !5
6. Posted by a user(who was learning Elixir) on elixirforum.com !6 I wasn’t alone when thinking - Learning by Reading isn’t enough

7. How I started learning better? - Learning by Doing !7
8. Why learn this way? ◦ Easier to understand ◦ Easier to see a real world connect ◦ Get to apply multiple language concepts at one time Learning by Doing - Why take this approach? !8
9. What my learning goals could be? ◦ Get confident ◦ Make and Track regular progress as a programmer ◦ Learn from other people’s solutions if possible Learning by Doing - What were my goals? !9
10. Learning By Doing - How did I go about getting better at JS? !10
11. Use CodeNewbie Slack Group to ask tech q’s !11 A user of the CodeNewbie Slack group asking a JS related question on the #javascript slack channel
12. Personal Experience - Built a Hangman with CodeNewbie community members !12 Built the game as part of a JS Tuesday group on Code Newbie
13. Collaborated on Github to build the Hangman Game !13
14. Trello board used for tracking progress on the Hangman Project !14 Project Management for the Hangman Game was done through Trello
15. Wrote a detailed post about the whole experience on the CodeNewbie Blog !15 Blog with more details about the experience: http://bit.ly/codenewbie_jstue_hangman
16. Subscribe to the CodeNewbie Podcast !16 This podcast invites experienced programmers and others to share their journey of getting better
17. Some of the other episodes on the CodeNewbie Podcast !17
18. CodeNewbie Weekly Twitter Chat !18
19. A CodeNewbie Twitter Chat !19
20. CodeNewbie Weekly Twitter Chat Shoutouts !20
21. Codeland conference - For new and growing developers !21 Codeland conference is another part of the CodeNewbie community
22. An Artist sharing her story of using programming to build things !22
23. Codenewbie Newsletter !23
24. A member of the community having their blog featured on the CodeNewbie newsletter !24
25. Parting Thoughts
26. Credits ◦ Frontend vs Backend GIF from here ◦ “Alone we can do so little..” quote from here
27. Thank You Mohnish G Jadwani Twitter @mohnishgj Github boddhisattva Blog medium.com/@mohnishgj Site http://www.mohnishjadwani.com/ !27