Ep. 21 - Teaching Kids To Code (Rebecca Garcia)

CodeNewbie

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Tech News, Technology

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In today's episode, we talk with Developer Rebecca Garcia about her thoughts on teaching code in public school and how she found her own way as a self-taught developer to her current role as a developer evangelist at Squarespace.

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0:28.2	go to amazon.com.ukau.U.K. slash prime. Welcome to the Codenubi podcast, where we talk to people on their coding journey in hopes of helping you on yours.
0:43.8	I'm your host, Saron, and before we kick off the show, I want to tell you about our incredible sponsors.
0:49.2	I'm your host, Sauron, and today's guest is Rebecca Garcia.
0:52.7	She's a developer and the founder of Coder Dojo. Rebecca,
0:55.9	you want to say hi? Hi, everyone. I'm super excited to be here and to share my journey how I started to
1:01.9	learn how to code and how I help empower people to continue to learn to code. I'm so excited to have
1:07.6	you on, by the way. You're really awesome. I know. No, I mean, not, not that I'm awesome. I think you're awesome. But I think that the Code Newby podcast is really great. And, you know, I wish that there was like a resource like this when I started to learn how to code. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. No, I see your work all the time. I see that you're on Twitter. you're very active. You're very big in the community. And you do a lot to really help other people on their journey. And so I guess one of the things that you do is Coder Dojo, which is a nonprofit. And you hold these workshops to help youth between the ages of 7 and 17, if I read that correctly, learn to code.
1:45.0	Tell us a little bit about that.
1:46.0	Yeah, so Coder Dojo is a global movement of these free coding clubs for youth.
1:53.0	Basically, they're fun, creative, inspiring places to be where they can get exposed to technology
2:00.0	and all different kinds of, you know,
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