👣 Steps

If you haven’t done so already, choose someone (volunteer or trainee) to be the facilitator for this morning orientation block. Choose another to be the timekeeper.

This space is for a workshop activity of your choosing. In order for this to actually happen, you must organise it ahead of time.

👷🏿‍♀️ No lectures

Code Your Future workshops are designed to be interactive. Developed by volunteers and trainees, they are not about listening to a lecture. They are about doing, discussing, and learning together.

💪🏾 No spoonfeeding

Workshops are also not tutorials, where you follow along step-by-step. CYF workshops are meant to expose gaps and mistakes in your understanding, so mentors can help you fix them. This means you should expect to be challenged and to make mistakes. This is the main value of mentor-led workshops.

👂🏿 Responding to needs

You can run a workshop in person on class days, or online in the week. Mentors volunteer to run workshops on Slack, and learners propose topics they need help with. There are a huge number of workshops available at workshops.codeyourfuture.io/.

Organise a workshop on Slack

Usually there’s a rota showing who will lead the energiser. We have some favourite games you can play if you are stuck.

1. Traffic Jam: re-order the cars to unblock yourself
2. Telephone: draw the words and write the pictures
3. Set: a game of visual perception
4. Mastermind: a game of deduction
5. Sudoku: a game of logic
6. Mancala: a game of strategy

Every Saturday we cook and eat together. We share our food and our stories. We learn about each other and the world. We build community.

This is everyone’s responsibility, so help with what is needed to make this happen, for example, organising the food, setting up the table, washing up, tidying up, etc. You can do something different every week. You don’t need to be constantly responsible for the same task.

At CYF we expect you to demo your work to the class. You must have many opportunities to practice how to clearly and simply explain your work to others. This is really important both for interviews and for getting promoted later on.

⏰ Timekeeper

The timekeeper will keep the groups on track.

Split randomly into groups of no more than 5 people. Each person will have 2 minutes to demo their work to the group. After the demo, the group will give feedback for 10 minutes. Then the next person will demo their work.

🧑🏼‍🎓 Trainees

1. Demo

You will demo your work to the group. You will have 2 minutes to explain what you did and why. It’s ok to show broken code or code that doesn’t work yet. Just make sure your demo is interesting.

2. Feedback

After the demo, the group will give you feedback for up to 10 minutes. It’s smart to suggest what kind of feedback you want by asking some “generative” questions. For example:

• I wasn’t sure if it makes sense to try X. What do you think?
• I liked the way I did X, but I know there are other approaches, what did you do?
• I found X really confusing, did anyone else have the same problem?

💡 Tips:

• Practice your demo before class.
• Keep it simple. Don’t try to show everything you did. Just show one interesting thing.
• Keep it short. Two minutes is enough.
• Explain what you did and why.
• Show your code.
• Ask for feedback.

What are we doing now?

You’re going to use this time to work through coursework. Your cohort will collectively self-organise to work through the coursework together in your own way. Sort yourselves into groups that work for you.

Use this time wisely

You will have study time in almost every class day. Don’t waste it. Use it to:

• work through the coursework
• ask questions and get unblocked
• give and receive code review
• work on your portfolio
• develop your own projects

Please feel comfortable and welcome to pray at this time if this is part of your religion.

If you are breastfeeding and would like a private space, please let us know.

This space is for a workshop activity of your choosing. In order for this to actually happen, you must organise it ahead of time.

👷🏿‍♀️ No lectures

Code Your Future workshops are designed to be interactive. Developed by volunteers and trainees, they are not about listening to a lecture. They are about doing, discussing, and learning together.

💪🏾 No spoonfeeding

Workshops are also not tutorials, where you follow along step-by-step. CYF workshops are meant to expose gaps and mistakes in your understanding, so mentors can help you fix them. This means you should expect to be challenged and to make mistakes. This is the main value of mentor-led workshops.

👂🏿 Responding to needs

You can run a workshop in person on class days, or online in the week. Mentors volunteer to run workshops on Slack, and learners propose topics they need help with. There are a huge number of workshops available at workshops.codeyourfuture.io/.

Organise a workshop on Slack