Coderoulette, a collaborative learning experiment
NOTE: We shut down Coderoulette. Learn why and what we learned here.
All the major challenges that humanity is facing won’t be solved by individuals — they will be solved by groups of people collaborating to accomplish things that no single individual could solve by herself.
We’re launching Coderoulette because we are passionate about collaboration and we want to help people learn how to collaborate better while they learn new things and build new relationships.
What is Coderoulette?
Coderoulette is a pair programming game where we match developers from all around the world and give them coding challenges that they have to solve in real-time using video conference and a collaborative programming environment.
Since our focus is on collaborative learning, we added a little twist to the game — the two developers in each team don’t know which programming language they will have to use. They just know that at least one of them already knows that language. We do this to create collaborative learning opportunities between the two developers. It’s a coding roulette!
Why are we building Coderoulette?
Because we want to understand collaborative learning better and because we think it will be fun for developers. Coderoulette is our first experiment in this area. We are building other commercial products to help people learn through collaboration and hands-on experiences. If you are interested in joining or helping us please contact me.
We believe collaboration is the key to solve humanity’s biggest challenges and that it should be an important part of our educational experience.
Who is behind Coderoulette?
Coderoulette has been built by Miriam Muros and me in collaboration with Wiki Chaves, a product designer based in San Francisco. Thanks to Diego Jimenez too for his help with the initial designs and prototypes.
What are we doing next?
Learning shouldn’t be boring, theoretical or lonely. We are building a new company that partners with online and offline educational institutions (universities, bootcamps and MOOC providers) and offers their students the opportunity to build projects with other students based on the things they are learning. We use project-based learning to make the learning process more fun and effective and we use collaboration to keep students engaged and accountable.
If you are a developer, designer or educator and you want to help us, contact me.
If you are an investor interested in this area, let’s talk.
If you are a bootcamp, university or any other type of educational institution that shares our vision, let’s share some ideas.
How did we build Coderoulette?
Miriam has written a great post explaining how we built Coderoulette and all the technology we use.
How can you help us?
Share Coderoulette with your friends via Email, Twitter or Facebook.
Upvote Coderoulette in Product Hunt, Hacker News and Reddit.
Contact us with suggestions, feedback or opportunities.
Try Coderoulette.
Acknowledgements
- The team — Miriam, Diego and Wiki
- The Open-source community
- Sphere Engine
- Our beta testers — Antonio, Juan, Borja, Raul, Jose, Victor, Fede
- Our friends and family
