Friday, September 12, 2014

Dev Club Weekly


This week (our first Dev Club on Friday night) the conversation included:

  • The awesome new clubhouse for the Clubhou.se
  • Context-Free-Grammars
  • HTML and CSS in email
  • SQL (dear lord, the SQL)
    • Foreign Keys
    • Cascades
    • Databases as code repositories
  • Hackathons and Helpathons
  • Women Who Code Atlanta

Next week, inspired by Women Who Code: Atlanta, we're going to try an experiment. Instead of a workshop or a hackathon, we're going to have a helpathon. Come with a project in mind, or a thing to add to the helpathon. These things could be any of the following:

  • Enthusiasm
  • Drawing ability
  • Javascript skills
  • Knowledge of Python
  • A desire to learn about code
  • CSS know-how
  • Git experience
  • Snacks
  • Curiosity

you get the idea. There won't be any presentations.  There's no competition. You don't need to already know how to program. If you just want to come and sit in the same room with a few other tech people and poke around on your laptop while they talk about code, or poke on their own laptops - that's totally cool. Zero pressure.

I'll be there to help with Javascript or HTML or CSS or any of a few other technologies. Chad can help with even more than I can. If Fred can come - he's like the helper-in-chief. If you're comfortable helping others with their projects, and they request it - you can be a helpathon helper too.

So next week: an experiment in helping. Nerds Helping Nerds.

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