For Coding and Community
Our goals for this year is to invest a little bit more time into writing codes and building communities. Truthfully, it feels really great to be involved in growing a new generation of programmers with a new mindset. We sincerely believe that the world in no far time will converge in technology, and the ability to communicate with these technologies will become our competitive advantage.
A long time ago, it was our ability to read and write human languages that kept us valuable to the society, but right now technology is moving at such amazing speed that reading and writing computer languages irrespective of whatever chosen career path will be an added advantage. Computer programming isn’t only for technological startups, computer scientist and engineers, everyone should understand how it works or risk losing their advantage to young startups. It is for this reason that Basic Coding Challenge (BCC) was birthed. Our vision is not only to become better web developers ourselves but to introduce programming to people who have never programmed at all. People who do not know what HTML is.
In this year 2018, we hope to mentor a minimum of five hundred (500) people with zero-programming experience to becoming full-stack web developers at no financial cost on the participants. Once again, it is important that this is stressed. It is not minimum coding experience, but zero experience. Software developers with many hours of programming might not need to join as our curriculum is designed with zero-coding experience unless they want to. However, expert coders can request to join as facilitators or mentors if their core values resonates with this community. The good news is, we have started our first cycle.
Our first cycle begins the sixteen weeks (16) of daily minimum of three (3) hours of coding journey into the possibilities of web development on the 8th of January, 2018. At the end of this cycle, each participants will have spent a minimum of 120 days multiplied with 3 hours which will equal 360 hours of web programming. We have a total of two hundred and ten (210) participants in this cycle and we are hoping to have this number build their first major project at the end of the challenge. The only requirement is for each participant to pledge to a daily minimum of three (3) hours.
Finally, we will like to introduce our team of mentors and facilitators who have done a lot of background work to get this challenge working, and more importantly commit to building this community. We appreciate the commitment, dedication and passion. At the time of this writing, here’s the list of our mentors and facilitators. Please feel free to write them as often as you can.
2. Hassan Sani
5. Sylva Elendu
Oh and one last thing, congratulations to the two hundred and ten (210) participants that got accepted into BCC Cycle 1. Now let’s get work done and build a project together.
