Everything you need to know is on the Rails Girls LA website or you can ask me. [email protected]
- Help students install Rails and everything they need to do build their app tomorrow.
- The checklist
Don't forget
- your computer
- your power cord
- maybe an extension cord
- your patience for installing
We will have some snacks & pizza for coaches if you get peckish or are coming straight from work.
:) but you may want to pick up some dinner first if you hate pizza.
Don’t worry about being a bit late on Friday but let me know if you can't come.
===
- Sign in
- find your students
- have a bit of breakfast
- get settled in and start the day
- The Guide (tutorial) This is the tutorial we will go through with the students. It is not a race to get through it all. Aim for getting up to the part where it says to take a break. Anything past that point is frosting.
Please don't be late. Your students will be looking for you first thing in the morning.
Assume there will be traffic. It's Hollywood.
Zest Finance 6636 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Friday - Parking may be a bit of a pain on Friday being that Zest Finance is in Hollywood. https://www.parkme.com/hollywood-parking/hollywood-blvd or look for street parking. Be sure to read the signs. The parking enforcement people are vultures. Sorry but there is no validation or reimbursement for parking on Friday.
Saturday http://railsgirls.com/la#location
- Pay $10. cash - Get your Ticket - Get refunded
- Park in the lot off of Cherokee between Selma and Hollywood.
- You will need to bring $10 CASH to pay for your parking ticket.
- Please be sure to bring your ticket with you for us to validate so that you can get your $10 back when you leave.
- When parking, please let the attendant know that you are going to ZestFinance.
- Breakfast bagels and coffee
- Lunch Vegan and other.
- At the party we will have cupcakes!
Please read this Gist about coaching:
Are the words “easy,” “basic,” “clearly,” “obviously,” etc., ever helpful?
This may be your first time or your hundredth time coaching but this is what we would like out of our coaches. :)
- Go through the tutorial so Saturday is not the first day you have seen it
- Encourage your students to take turns reading the tutorial out loud to each other This will give them practice hearing and saying the terminology and you won't miss anything by skimming over it.
- Patience, willingness to help, and a friendly attitude :)
- Being able to answer all sorts of questions in a beginner friendly way (even if the explanation isn’t technically, completely exact)
- Don’t be afraid to ask for help from other coaches or Google things. It's good for the students to know that learning is a process.
- Encourage students not to copy and paste unless it's a really big blob of code like the css.
- Often coaches who are just one step ahead of attendees are the best at explaining :)
- Use real life metaphors and explain very high-level. Explaining too deep will cause a flood of information that is not necessary at the beginning.
- Have the students sit side by side and be behind them so you can see both their screens.
- Encourage them to help each other.
- Explain the benefits of pairing.
- Don't get on their computers unless absolutely necessary. Try telling them what to do first.
All the students have gone through these tutorials.
- Some of the students are pure beginners. Be patient. :)
- Some of the students are getting a CS degree or have experience programming and just want to expand their knowledge. Try to help them connect the dots between Rails and what they already know. Encourage them to coach next time.
On the day of the event text me if something horrible happens and you can't come.
Jen Diamond, at 323-363-0002
You are why the Rails community is so awesome.