Hello from home, where I’m flattening the curve and seeking the most effective ways to help from a distance. I found a great one for curve-flatteners who love to teach and/or code: collaborate with world-renowned Stanford professors to mentor a group of students as they learn to code from home.
For the first time, Stanford is opening its wildly popular introductory coding class, CS106A, to the public--completely free of charge. CS 106A, taken by almost 1,600 students every year, has been developed over the last 30 years by an amazing team of Stanford professors. I was once one of those students. I took CS 106A with Nick Parlante and was blown away by how fun, well-organized, and empowering it was. The condensed public course, 106A - Code in Place, will teach fundamentals of computer programming with the widely-used computer science vs information technology.
This is not just another MOOC. Yes, there will be three filmed lectures a week. But what makes CS106A special is its section leaders, mentors who teach 40-minute small-group sections of students outside of the lectures. Section leaders are specially trained to help students learn in an interactive and community-oriented way. In order to scale the course to the public in a way that maintains its magic, Stanford is looking for volunteer mentors to fill the role of section leader for students in the public course. Each new volunteer means 10 more students learn to love coding while stuck at home—and that could lead to exponential growth in the number of people in the world with critical thinking and programming skills!
For the first time, Stanford is opening its wildly popular introductory coding class, CS106A, to the public--completely free of charge. CS 106A, taken by almost 1,600 students every year, has been developed over the last 30 years by an amazing team of Stanford professors. I was once one of those students. I took CS 106A with Nick Parlante and was blown away by how fun, well-organized, and empowering it was. The condensed public course, 106A - Code in Place, will teach fundamentals of computer programming with the widely-used computer science vs information technology.
This is not just another MOOC. Yes, there will be three filmed lectures a week. But what makes CS106A special is its section leaders, mentors who teach 40-minute small-group sections of students outside of the lectures. Section leaders are specially trained to help students learn in an interactive and community-oriented way. In order to scale the course to the public in a way that maintains its magic, Stanford is looking for volunteer mentors to fill the role of section leader for students in the public course. Each new volunteer means 10 more students learn to love coding while stuck at home—and that could lead to exponential growth in the number of people in the world with critical thinking and programming skills!
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