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What city do you live in? Have you ever considered mentoring or teaching someone who really wants to start coding? Currently there is a lot of charities and NG

What city do you live in? Have you ever considered mentoring or teaching someone who really wants to start coding? Currently there is a lot of charities and NGO's that do classes for people to get tech skills. But I personally believe if you really want to make a sure impact, find and pick one individual that you know is dedicated and willing to learn, because in my experience coding isn't something you can casually learn, it's a huge commitment and the only way to make an impact is to give someone a second chance, or allow someone to prove themselves. That's what Mr. Miyagi did

vikingcaffiene 11y ago
I live in LA. I completely agree with your point about mentoring someone one on one and in fact have been doing that for a little over a year with someone. He just started at an entry level tech job a few months back so booyah there :-). The experience has been very rewarding (and far more challenging than I anticipated). My skills are the product of mentoring from a kind stranger (now a close friend) so I definitely intend to do more of that.
- mkwenhua 11y ago
  That's awesome, I had a mentor that guided me when I decided I wanted a career change and I am extremely grateful for that. I actually started doing classes at a local outreach program and I was quite upset when I learned that the people in charge were more interested in superficial appearances than providing useful skills. For example they wanted me to have a class where they essentially build a website using more template and a jQuery UI library, and when I told them that the students need to begin with the basics, they disagreed since they said it would "look bad". But anyways, I still went along with it because I am hoping someone who was like me will show up, and then I can teach them. But I feel that the actual classes they have are more like motivational feel good TED talks as opposed to being actually useful.
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- hienyimba 11y ago
  * 1 point by hienyimba 1 day ago | parent | on: Ask HN: Best way to donate my dev skills? Wow. thank God I saw this. I am based in a developing nation (one of the biggest in the world) and just started working on a project to make govt. officials responsible to the people. For so long, corruption has been the bane of my society and i truly feel i have a chance to change my country. Kindly contact me at hienyimba@gmail.com ... God bless you. By the way, here is some validation - http://techmoran.com/ceo-weekends-18-year-old-nigerian-youth-launches-yolpe-com-to-disrupt-africas-job-rectruitment-industry/#sthash.SHLfoBWf.dpbs http://techmoran.com/ceo-weekends-18-year-old-nigerian-youth...

vikingcaffiene 11y ago

I live in LA. I completely agree with your point about mentoring someone one on one and in fact have been doing that for a little over a year with someone. He just started at an entry level tech job a few months back so booyah there :-). The experience has been very rewarding (and far more challenging than I anticipated). My skills are the product of mentoring from a kind stranger (now a close friend) so I definitely intend to do more of that.

mkwenhua 11y ago
That's awesome, I had a mentor that guided me when I decided I wanted a career change and I am extremely grateful for that. I actually started doing classes at a local outreach program and I was quite upset when I learned that the people in charge were more interested in superficial appearances than providing useful skills. For example they wanted me to have a class where they essentially build a website using more template and a jQuery UI library, and when I told them that the students need to begin with the basics, they disagreed since they said it would "look bad". But anyways, I still went along with it because I am hoping someone who was like me will show up, and then I can teach them. But I feel that the actual classes they have are more like motivational feel good TED talks as opposed to being actually useful.
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hienyimba 11y ago
* 1 point by hienyimba 1 day ago | parent | on: Ask HN: Best way to donate my dev skills? Wow. thank God I saw this. I am based in a developing nation (one of the biggest in the world) and just started working on a project to make govt. officials responsible to the people. For so long, corruption has been the bane of my society and i truly feel i have a chance to change my country. Kindly contact me at hienyimba@gmail.com ... God bless you. By the way, here is some validation - http://techmoran.com/ceo-weekends-18-year-old-nigerian-youth-launches-yolpe-com-to-disrupt-africas-job-rectruitment-industry/#sthash.SHLfoBWf.dpbs http://techmoran.com/ceo-weekends-18-year-old-nigerian-youth...