Live coding sessions ++
While the COVID19 pandemic has been easing in some Holberton communities, the trend isn’t going in the right direction for most of them. Many of our students have been sheltering and studying from home, for months.
We were able to quickly move Holberton education online, without any interruptions for students, and have been adding features to make Holberton online education better. Among many features and initiatives, one is particularly adored by our student community: the weekly live-coding session.
These sessions were historically done by San Francisco Resident Software Engineer Kristen Loyd and I. For 1 to 4 hours, we would whiteboard and code live 1 or more projects that students had worked on, streaming it to our students in all campuses across the world.
Live coding sessions allow students to witness the thought-process of a senior software engineer solving a problem and how it is then implemented into code. Students can ask questions at any time and clarify concepts they may be unsure of. Students enjoy the learning benefits, but they also get to hang out with fellow students from all across the world – which can be a mood booster – in a time where we are all far from one another.
Given the success of these live coding sessions, we came together as a community and are now very happy to bring this to the next level. Starting next week, we will offer even more live sessions every week, with more formats! These live coding sessions will be given by software engineers in residence from Holberton campuses around the world.
As an example, here is next week schedule:
- Monday: printf concepts review with 🇨🇴Holberton Medellín SWE Fredy Mena Andrade (this is a project where students get to code their own version of printf)
- Tuesday: SQL JOINs with 🇺🇾Holberton Montevideo SWE Javier Valenzani
- Wednesday: Binary trees with 🇺🇸Holberton San Francisco SWE Kristen Loyd
- Thursday: Introduction to assembly with 🇨🇴Holberton Bogotá SWE Nicolaz Pérez
- Friday: Singly-linked lists with Holberton 🇺🇸Tulsa SWE Derek Webb
With at least one software engineer in residence for every Holberton campus, more campuses will mean more live coding sessions! With locations all across the world, it also means that students can learn from different points of view, ways of thinking, with more diversity of background, culture, and experience!
These live coding sessions are extracurricular. They are following our belief of helping one another and learning from each other – live-coding sessions are an embodiment of what our education is: project and peer-based learning.
If you are a software developer and want to do a live coding session with Holberton folks from all across the world, please reach out to me! Keep coding!