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Call 3 Outline - 1-1 Interactions

  • Review progress from last time: what did you look at, and:
    • What was the atmosphere?
    • How was it communicated?
    • How could it be better?
  • How do Evangelists spend most of their time at CodeDay?
    • Walking around the event, seeing how they can help people
    • We call that patrolling
  • How often to patrol?
    • As often as possible!
    • At CodeDay, should be most of the time spent at the event
      • Never look at your laptop
  • What does patrolling do?
    • Establishes atmosphere (early on is most important!)
    • Helps people meet you for later support
    • Finds problems people are too embarrassed to talk about
    • Morale
    • Helps prevent people leaving
      • Only 10% attrition during CodeDay -- this helps a lot
  • Atmosphere -- what atmosphere does it set?
    • Helpful
    • Fun
    • Interested in learning
    • Community!
  • How do you help?
    • What is your goal with "helping"?
      • NOT answering questions
      • If so, they'll think of you as a "programming god"
      • Help them learn to answer their own questions
    • When is it okay to directly tell them an answer?
      • "Find the button" question
      • Banging their heads against a wall for a while without getting anywhere
    • How to help without giving the answer?
      • Rubber Duck Debugging - "tell me how your code works"
      • "What have you searched for?"
      • "Where do you think the bug might be in your code?"
      • "What have you tried?"
  • Also morale, more on that next time.
  • Assignments for this week:
    • Talk to someone who's newer to programming (on Facebook is fine) and try to make them feel welcomed into the programming community through questions.
    • Go to khanacademy.com's programming section, and go to a beginner course
      • Click on "help requests" in the green bar on the right
      • See if you can help some people in accordance with this section
      • look for people who could be helped with some guidance rather than a direct answer
      • (people who don't "get it" conceptually)
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