Meeting 02 03

Meeting Notes: Feb, 03

Agenda

1. topic selection for trainers
2. what next for trainers?
3. selection of candidates for the pilot: TBD
4. do we close the applications? No, we'll leave it rolling
5. which topics do we cover for the pilot
6. pedagogy approach -> how do we deliver content, engage students in-between sessions, etc.
7. sessions (2 sessions a week)
8. Teams tenant - Josh!
9. Define the roles (mentors and trainers) - Ruth/Nandaa took this up.

House Keeping

• Mailing-lists for comms
• Everyone to join
• avatars for Github

Student Selection

• We will go with FCFS basis, it's not about the the best 40 but the first good 40.
• In the case we don't find the 40, do we extend the application?
• Are we flexible enough to adjust that number, say we get 60?
  • Teams can handle ~250 pax, so that's sort of our glass ceiling
• TBD: Loice to set up the meeting for selection
• Selection Committee: Pius, Loice, Charity, Collins, Amb. Felix, Amb. Julia

Topics to be covered

For the pilot, we will only cover Section I of the curriculum:

I: Foundational Data Structures and Concepts: Arrays and Strings, Stacks and Queues, Linked Lists, Dictionaries and Hash-maps, Big-O Analysis.

• Each topic taking 1 week. This means we will spill a little into March to complete our micro-pilot.

ℹ NOTE: The topics were patterned around HackerRank's Interview Kit

what's next for trainers?

• Recommended platforms to get material and sample questions for your sessions:

  • Main "text":
    • LeetCode
    • Geeks4Geeks
    • http://algorithms.wtf
    • Visual Algorithms
  • Other recommended:
    • Prof. Abdul series on Algorithms - YouTube
    • Project Euler
    • Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena | amzn | coursera free series
    • CLRS
    • Back to Back SWE
    • https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithms-part1#syllabus
    • https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithms-part2#syllabus

• What should trainers do?

  • prepare the content way advance
  • plan to do a test run
  • Ruth to run training techniques (TODO: Nandaa/Ruth to set invite)

Pedagogy Approach

• Break-out sessions ("unconferences"):
  • Fireside chats
  • Workshops on other side topics, e.g. communication, MS interview process, negotiations,
  • AMAs
  • ..
  • "GoL TV" anyone? :) subscribe, like...
  • We make it "open mic" of sorts, where any mentor or trainer comes up with a topic and it's scheduled in
  • We will need to spread the sessions across the whole 3 months 💯

Questions / ETC

• Acclaim badges for those who will complete