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Details for September 23rd 2017 CoderDojo Ponce Springs!

Welcome to CoderDojo Ponce Springs -- the free and fun place where Atlanta's kids code apps, games, sites, and more -- supported by mentors, parents, and a global community!

We follow CoderDojo principles. Our events have two halves: the first to support beginners, the second for returning students working on our ongoing projects of their own or mentor-led series tracks.

Event summary

1:00 - 3:00 PM:

Our events last from 1pm to 3pm. They are attend by mentors, students, and parents. Parents, please do not forget to bring a laptop for your student.

Beginner students

For beginners, no matter what level you are at, during this session you can ask questions or continue what you started and get tips and help from Mentors and other Students! If you've never coded before, you should start learning at home with free online tools. Two popular beginner tools are Blockly Games or Lightbot. If you have a little bit of experience, but want to learn more, you can try Khan Academy's great and free courses here.

And, if you have more time, you can also try out one of the free courses or tutorials linked in the Learning resources section below.

Intermediate and Advanced students

Students who have their own projects are welcome to come and seek assistance from other Students or from CoderDojo Mentors.

Quick links and RSVP info for Parents, Mentors and other Volunteers

All: Directions and parking Tips

Note: We have changed locations to 112 Krog Street Suite 17, Atlanta, GA! We are in The Stove Works building, directly across from Krog Street Market, on the same side as Krog Bar and Rathbuns.

Be sure to read our parking guide!

Parents: Homework to do with your kids before coming and what to bring to the event:

  • Please remember to bring a laptop for your student. We have some machines that you can borrow during the event, but they are all Linux based, and not everyone is familiar with Linux. iPads or other tablets are not ideal for our events.
  • We recommend you do one of the beginner videos linked below in the Learning resources section together with your students. However, let the student control the keyboard as much as possible. For inspiration, see Sugata Mitra's Child-Driven Education TED talk.

How to RSVP

To help ensure privacy for our members, parents please sign up for your kids / students at our current RSVP page! There is no cost to sign up, you just have to join Meetup.com so that we can get a head count. If downtown Atlanta is too far for you, see the bottom of this page for our offspring dojos in Georgia!

Mentors and other Volunteers: Background check authorization and expertise questionnaire

How to RSVP

Sign up at our current RSVP page! There is no cost to sign up, you just have to join Meetup.com so that we can get a head count. If downtown Atlanta is too far for you, see the bottom of this page for our offspring dojos in Georgia which might need your help!

Sneak preview

Curious what an event looks like?

View our 2013 year-in-review video to see what a dojo is like.

CoderDojo Ponce Springs Year in Review

Student tips

Students, remember that the dojo is a partly a "flipped classroom", but mostly a playground.

This means you should start coding at home before you attend events, starting with the resources linked below. Come to the event having tried something already. We'll help you go further and have fun with what you're learning!

What interests you most?

We want you to feel free to pursue whatever programming languages, tools, and ideas are most interesting to you. You can always ask a mentor about things that you want to get into or to demo things you've tried at home.

What's your current experience with coding?

Think about where you fit against these descriptions:

  • Beginner level: You are totally new or have little exposure to programming and / or web development

  • Intermediate level: You have some experience with coding, but want to dig into concepts like game development, object-oriented programming, events, and web programming

  • Advanced level: You have already been programming for a while and have your own project that you'd like to discuss with other students or mentors that can help you go further.

Learning resources

If you are a beginner, or you want to begin something new, then the best thing to do is start trying it at home on your own laptop. Try out any of the following free resources at home, and then bring your laptop and show us and other students what you're learning.

We'll help you keep going from beginner to expert!

Video courses

Like learning from videos you can stop and rewind? Try one of these:

Written tutorials

Not into video training? We've got a huge list of other ways to get started on our Students Getting Started and Online Learning Guide.

Free interactive courseware from Teaching Kids Programming

Want to get even more in-depth? You can download the courseware and training from Teaching Kids Programming. It's really impressive and fun!

If you have any issues or questions, please email coderdojo AT versionone DOT com

Mentor recruitment

As mentioned above we have two ongoing mentor-led tracks, for Minecraft plugin development with Java, and HTML5 game development with Quintus. We are actively recruiting mentors for new series tracks! We don't require that you build their own materials. There is plenty of material to use already!

We need mentors to help students pursue the following:

Thank you and sponsorship

Thanks to all our volunteers and our corporate sponsor VersionOne!

CoderDojo Ponce Springs

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We're @CoderDojoPonce. Follow us for event updates and links to coding resources!

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Other dojos and similar efforts in Atlanta and the surrounding area have sprung to life by dedicated volunteers taking on the challenge. See the bottom of this page for details.

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