[fraXis]

>>Libraries are a beautiful place. They don't discriminate against anyone regardless of social status, race, gender, etc.

This is a great idea! Thanks for doing this. Have you had your first session yet? How did it go?

Do you use the library computers for your coding bootcamp?

[yjhoney]

Yeah last year we did it for 3 months as a pilot program. It was a little messy, but the librarians loved it. I took about a year break to think hard about how it could be more effective and came up with a self-guided curriculum and then launched this yesterday!

I plan to start small (intentionally so) to build a core group of students and then slowly grow from there. Over the past year The more senior students will pass knowledge down to the more junior ones.

Currently its still too early to determine if there are issues or if things are going well, but we have about 5 students that show up.

> Do you use the library computers for your coding bootcamp?

If students don't have their own computers, we have ssh access for them to code on our computer using a borrowed laptop from the library. VSCode supports remote coding so that's cool. You also have tools like coder.com and repl.it that allows students to code without owning a computer.

[kendallpark]

Please write up your experiences! What works? What doesn't work? How are you structuring the program? Your idea is fantastic and I think documentation would useful for others that might want to implement something similar.

[yjhoney]

Definitely! I'm still in the process of learning and figuring this out, I'll write something after this goes on for awhile. The last thing I want to do is start something, write about it like I know what I'm talking about, then stop doing it.