Why Johnny Can't Code: An Evening of Rants about Education with Kyle Coberly

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Talk:

How do you learn to program? How do you learn anything? Kyle has been teaching for 19 years, and has taught software engineering to over 600 people in Denver. From debunking learning styles to why you should stop obsessing over "the fundamentals", Kyle will answer questions and challenge the things you think you know about technology education.

This talk will be in "Lean Coffee" format, meaning that the audience will control the discussion in real time.

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Speaker:

Kyle Coberly is an educator, business dork, and software developer. He's a Lead Instructor for Flatiron School's software engineering immersive and the Executive Director of Develop Denver.

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Schedule:
6:30pm: Pizza, beer, networking
7:00pm: Talk
7:45pm: Questions

Hope you all can make it out to this great talk. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out.

The event will be streamed live here and archived to YouTube after. View the playlist here.

If you would like to speak at the meetup, please fill out this form.

Information about Node.js

This is a group for anyone who is currently using or interested in knowing more about Node.js and JavaScript. A great place to meet, interact, and learn with other developers, designers, managers, and like-minded individuals. Come and share your knowledge, applications, roadbloacks, and get feedback from others. We'll organize regularly scheduled meetings that will focus on Node.js and many of the associated technologies. 

About Node.js: Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript V8 run time for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses and event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.