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Hi. I'd like to offer to teach/mentor people if they want to learn how to program in Java. You don't have to know any computer programming, you can start from scratch.
I'm doing it as a course, but not one where we all have to be on at the same time. For each topic I'll post material, give a program for you to write, and then we'll all help each other as we have problems or confusions. I'm using Slack as the platform. There are about 10 people so far and I'm happy to have a few more. The pacing will depend on the group. Hopefully you can put an hour or two into it each day, but people have jobs and families.
If you contact me I'll send you a invitation link to join the Slack group as well as more details. (Thanks to /u/lucrecia for reminding me to not post too much identifying info here.)
I will say that I'm a high school programming teacher and have run a Girls Who Code club for a few years and a successful FRC robotics team which was half female!
Me post lockdown. I've part forgotten how to dress myself and part stopped giving the last bit of a shit about what people think are well matched outfits.
I’m just glad to be back where there’s actual changes of season so I’m not stuck in dreary tee shirts all the time, and where there are places to go (okay mostly hospital appointments so far, but still) so it’s worth putting on something nice!
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Yes! More due to climate and there being anywhere to go for me (the town I lived near before was tiny, now I’m in a regional city) than lockdown. Restrictions here have been lifted, masks are only for hospitals and public transport now. I can’t imagine what it was like during the worst of it, or for people in much harder-hit countries. I know the second lockdown in Melbourne was hard on my friends there.
My favorite small detail about the Labyrinth is how clouds of glitter sometimes announce Jareth's arrival XD
Mine is all the real chickens, they really were the stars.
Did you ever watch Return to Oz?
I have not! Is there a good chicken presence?
In that film (and the book it's based on of course), instead of Toto, Dorothy has a chicken companion named Billina. Billina is from Dorothy's farm and gains the power of speech in Oz, and is played using a very realistic puppet... and a live chicken, depending on the shot. The film is kind of dark and twisted, in that '80s way that was popular at the time, but it's so worth it just for Billina alone. She carries the film. She gets a happy ending, too, opting to stay in Oz rather than "go back to that dust bowl".
It sounds amazing! I will totally be watching this and join the Billina fan club.