Yesterday I had the pleasure to present the first lesson from my Basic Programming course, totally free, as a demo session, for 13 interested people.
I would like to thank all participants for their patience and focus, I know that the first encounter can be quite challenging. Judging from the received feedback and my perception, everything went well, and I managed to introduce you guys to the world of software development. I really hope you gained some useful insight and that you will continue to invest in yourselves to further learn what software development is, regardless if you will attend this course in the fall or not.
I really encourage you to NOT stop here, carry on, solve the simplified blackjack problem starting with the flow diagram and the pseudo code. Once you finish it, feel free to send me your “output” to devcoachro@gmail.com so I can take a look at it and make some improvement suggestions.
As I promised, the slides from yesterday are available on https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15Rv5D7jioDbuk4tkiSwDsL9qwJH1ozbUjeafsJkl0IM. Feel free to go through the information again in order to better remember it. Also, double check the diagram with the one I got. You also have a link (in the slides) for the pseudo code I wrote to solve the problem. Remember, there are multiple ways to solve the same problem (diagram and pseudo code) so you don’t have to reach the exact same form (diagram and pseudo code) in order to for your program to be correct. Maybe you can find a better, easier way to do it.
Think about it, in just one session you got enough information so you could implement your first simplified card game, this is HUGE! If you managed to do this in just one session, imagine what you could obtain in the full 100 hours course.
In this first session we barely scratched the surface of what you could achieve. Please check the full curricula at https://devcoachro.wordpress.com/basic-programming => we stopped at introduction, pseudo code bullet :).
You have some more proposed problems to solve in the last slides if you’re feeling adventurous and I encourage you to try to solve them. Send your solutions to devcoachro@gmail.com and I will also double check them and come with some improvements if required.
As always, if you have any questions, need clarifications, advice etc. feel free to contact me (mail, https://www.facebook.com/DevCoachRo, https://devcoachro.wordpress.com/contact/) and I will be happy to help you the best way I can. This applies to everyone, regardless you were at the demo session or will join the full course or not :).
Once again, thank you for your attendance and for the provided feedback! Don’t stop learning, it will be worth it in the long run!
Big thank you to the Faculty of Sciences administration who helped us with the classroom!
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