Elizabeth Chalker 🇺🇸

“While the workshop did provide a very good overview of coding, I found several things to be very frustrating. 1. Week one took me almost 15 hours of work compared to the suggested 5. There are 21 lessons, many with challenges, and weekly homework. This week should be split into 2 weeks. 2. Week two lesson one was a horrible lesson and should be revised. The only way I worked through it and determined what actually needed to be done was by asking for help. 3. Asking your students to look up how to do something on google is a terrible practice. You can suggest this, but there were a number of times we had to figure something out by googling it. All it really caused was added frustration. I'd never expect my students to teach themselves skills through googling. I realize we do this in real world settings, but for beginners this should be a no go. I did appreciate the quick and responsive help in Slack and I think that is a great feature to help everyone be successful. I did learn coding basics, and now I know that this is something that is not for me.”