Hello? Ahoy! Todd Wong!
Todd Wong! John Atul! We are 591 strong!
Well, hello, Robert Tenney! Hello! Can you, can I be heard? Hello!
Hello, Salma and Kenny and, oh, bada! And Amar and Andrea and Andrew. Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello! CodePath engineers, hello! CodePath engineers, hello!
CodePath engineers, hello! Let's go Valentine's Day! What?
CodePath engineers, hello! Hello, hello! Hello, hello!
Get those hearts rolling! What is up, everybody? Engineers near and far, get those hearts a-flowing! My name is Liz Penny, and I brought a whole bunch of my buddies along.
And we want to welcome you to a very, very special edition of CodePath Does Spring Term. It's Valentine's Day, everybody. And so the very first thing I want to say unto you, can you see my screen, is engineers, you are the semicolon to my statement. Or I might say unto you, you know, you must be a CodePath project, because y'all are all I can think about.
Right? That Instagram, who in our social media did this? The person's name is Alyssa.
We can all thank Alyssa right now. Go ahead and type thank you Alyssa in the chat. Thank you Alyssa in the chat.
All right, engineers near and far, my name is Liz Penny. I am a lifelong learner, perhaps as you are, and I have come to find that engineering is one of the best ways I can develop my economic self, develop my community self, and develop my learner self. Engineering has been a place that I've hung my camp, my tent, for a couple years now.
And I love building learning environments where people can get their engineering on. If you're in the room, I hope you do too. And everybody go ahead and put in the chat where you're coming to us from.
Put in the chat where you're coming to us from. Yes, New York, Bay Area. What's up, Minnesota? I went to college in Minnesota.
Hello. Ooh, yes. Texas, how's the temperature? Boston, shout out Louisiana. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right.
And now everybody put in the chat what class you're here to take. Go ahead and put in the chat, are you in cyber or web or... Very, very, very nice. Okay, and now everybody... I don't know, do this.
Put one thing about you that your neighbors are going to enjoy in this class. What's up, Lake Jones? I'll come be right over to you. Put one thing in the chat that your neighbors are going to enjoy about you in this class.
Humor. dad jokes, talk tennis, have bunnies, friendly, love to dab, badminton, humor. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right.
So one last time, say it with me at home or even maybe just hum it or kind of bump it to yourself. Oh, I don't know. CodePath engineers, hello. CodePath engineers, hello.
CodePath engineers, hello. Let's go spring term. All right, so let us be getting started.
We come together today to orient. Next week, some on Tuesday, some on Wednesday, some on Thursday, and some on Saturday, we're gonna get this thing started. In this room, we have web, cyber, and iOS, and in just an hour and a half, we'll be doing tip in a little tip-based room out there. Some of you are long timers at CodePath, and some of you, it's your very first time.
I and my neighbors, Susie, Maxwell, Lake, Sabrian. Jason and all our operations team want to welcome you. We are going to tell you a little bit about ourselves and we're going to get this party started. The main goal today, here let me come all the way to you one more time, the main goal today is that we have a little bit of a smile and warm welcome. You understand some of the do's and don'ts of how we're about to get down, right?
And we all practice a little bit of slack together. Spoiler alert, I want to practice slack together on stage. Because we, good neighbors, we're 7,000 deep this term. There are 7,000 engineers, and that's going to make a lot.
If we don't get organized, it's going to make a little bit of a ruckus. And we want to make the right kind of ruckus, not the kind that is like a blizzard in our communications. TLDR, we want to smile today, tell you a little bit about the do's and don'ts.
Warmly welcome and practice a little bit of our engineer behaviors together. Because when you're done with this class, we want that next internship or first job to be easier and easier and easier. CodePath is a lot about pulling the curtain back and helping us understand.
Great. It's not so impossible to understand, but does anybody show us? What does it take and what does it look like to have an engineering mindset, engineering skills, engineering communication? So we're here today to set all that up.
Who's with me? Who is with me? Okay, if you're with me, give me the, okay, that's a lot of heart emojis.
You're with me. All right, I'm in. I'm in. They're in. I'm in.
We're in the car. If you're in this room, you're in the car. We're going to go through the slides. When the slides prompt us, we're going to hear each voice, not each voice in the room. We're going to hear each voice in the room, right?
My panelists are those who are going to put this program on with you. You're going to put it on and they're going to put it on and we're going to put this program on together. So I'm going to get us started.
And in one minute. When the slides prompt us, you'll hear each voice from the presenters. We got a fair amount of material, and in 52 short minutes, we'll be done.
So off we go. Lake Jones, I want to warn you, I like to invite people to read the slides with me. So Lake Jones is one of our tech fellow leaders and may or may not say yes when I invite them to read some of these slides. Lake Jones, will you take us away? Just read the slide and we're going to keep it rolling.
Heck yeah, I'd love to, Liz. Hello, hello, everybody. Welcome to student orientation, special topics.
We'll be covering cyber, iOS, and of course, I'm a little bit biased, but web. So this will be our engineer team meeting. All right, folks, this is our first team meeting, right? This is not really an orientation as much as it is, yo, team meeting.
I think we're a couple thousand deep at this point. Let us begin. Lake.
So like Liz said, hello to everyone and welcome. We are so, so excited to have you all here. We're 1.6k deep, I see. So we're so, so excited to see everybody.
So, you know, excited in the chat. Yeah, let's go ahead and get started. All right, go ahead and read this slide, and then we'll keep it moving forward. Okay.
So we're thrilled to have you join us for the spring. Let's connect, collaborate, and cultivate knowledge in this virtual space. As you all prepare for your upcoming course, we want to ensure that you all have the information and resources you need to start off on the right foot. This orientation is designed to provide you with the valuable insights into how we do it here at CodeCat.
Okay, this is professionalism number one, ground zero. We want to understand how we do it in each environment. Each environment does it a little differently, and we want to understand how do they do it here. We hope we're putting on a play that you like and love, and you want to tell your friends about.
We want to earn that from you. and we also want you to know how we do it here so you can help organize yourself to hit those beats. All right, I'll take a few of these slides.
So before we begin, we want to tell you a little bit about CodePath. Here are some of the main ideas. Here are some of the main ideas.
Everybody put in the chat one thing that you came to this course to get. Everybody put in the chat one thing you came to this course to get. An internship experience coding React knowledge internship skills.
Learn React. Okay, good, good, good, good, good, good, good. Hey, everybody. One of our organizational North Stars is that we want to support students and early career engineers to develop the skills, support, and also the connection needed to secure the most competitive technical roles. Not everybody wants to go that direction, but if you do, we want to be a stepping stone to help you get there.
And if you just like tech and you want to hang out with other go-getters, this is a good spot for you as well. This is one of our North Stars. We're not about technical meh. Hear me now, engineers. We're not about technical meh.
We're about the building blocks of technical excellence straight up. Yeah? We want to have that confidence to build the building blocks of knowing what it's like to become excellent. You don't have to get excellent in this term. We gotta know what it's like and what it takes.
That's right. Give me those surprised faces. Give them to me. Give them to me.
Give me those surprised faces. No more technical meh, says Abdullahi, right? Technical excellence, straight up.
It's not hard, but it does take attention and effort and willingness and grit and all those good things. It also takes some great teachers. So good news, we have Lake, Jason, and all their buddies in our setting. We also are about joyful, trustable, present community.
Hey, everyone, what I've come to learn is that people who are in degree programs are a little You got some stuff on your mind. If you've ever been stressed or felt like there's a lot on your plate, hit me with a, you got me. If you've ever been stressed or felt like you had a lot on your plate, you got me. Okay.
We take that to heart, man. We want this to be the best place you could spend your Tuesday or Thursday night. We want it to be a point of joy, right?
We're going to do a lot of rigor. Don't get me wrong, right? We're going to do a lot of rigor. Yeah? A lot of sweating.
and gritting, and this is hard, and I don't totally understand yet, but we also want to have the best time possible. In one second, I'm going to come back to Lake Jones. They're a long term player here and see if they'll tell me one of their favorites of the North Stars and what it's meant for them.
So we are about technical excellence, joyful, trustable, present community, and building the habits, mindsets, and culture that truly accelerate. I don't, a lot of people want to know React. And I want that for you too. But what I really care is whether you can read documentation. A lot of people want to know Docker.
And I want that for you too. But what we really need to know is how to work that toy problem every day for 15 minutes. Right?
Habits, mindsets, and culture. Sorry, we're going there. All right. Yeah, Kazra. Yeah, everyone.
Yeah, Gary. Come on, Mendels. Okay. So we are here to get technical excellence.
Trustable community and building Hamilton mindsets like Jones for all the marbles. Are you willing to speak on one of these and what it's meant for you so far in brief? Yeah, absolutely. So, of course, I think I initially joined. First of all, I joined CodePath my freshman year of college.
I'm currently a junior and I initially joined because of that technical excellence aspect. Right. But what made me stay for so long? You know, I'm a junior, of course. Was that community, please?
CodePath really is a family away from family, especially when you're in university. It's really important that you're able to, you know, source out that tribe. And so that's why I've really grown to love CodePath and why I've stayed for so long.
It's because you're really able to find that not only with your peers, but with your tech fellows, with your tech fellow managers, with your program managers, with your instructors, whatever the case may be. And it's so, so important that you have community in whatever space you're in. And CodePath does a great job at doing that. Thank you, Lake Jones, and welcome to your junior year. I remember my junior year crystal clear.
It was a barn burner, and I hear it's gotten harder since then. So good luck to you, Lake Jones, and thank you for joining us as a leader here now. I see a couple people in the chat saying they're just coming in. If you're just coming in, what did you miss? You missed some warm, cheerful welcome, a little bit of context, and I think you're catching the vibe probably just nicely if you've just arrived.
Okay, moving right along. So these are our North Stars. We're going to keep coming back to them, right? And forth we go. Here we are, everyone, taking Cyber, iOS, and Web.
That's this room. And here's some key info. It's a real thick slide.
But just like in documentation, when there's a lot of visuals on the slide, you just pick out some key information first and then dig into it. So first off, everybody put something that counts as key information on this slide. Just like the header, right? Go ahead and put something that counts as key information. Yep, yep, yep, yep.
Okay, so you know exactly what I'm talking about. This is not different, really, than reading documentation. You parse, visually overview, and attack, right?
I'm not going to go through the when. Basically, we start next week. Yeah, when? Next week.
Each in the room, a little different timing. There's many different starts in the room because of different classes. When?
We start next week. What? Twice weekly sessions.
Nope. That's for tip. Once weekly sessions.
Each session has a lecture, then breakout. You're going to do some stuff in and you're going to do some stuff out, but mostly in and a little bit out. Why? Badao. When you come out of this class, we want you to know and be able to dialogue on and point to your own choices of what are the building blocks of technical excellence.
And to have one, two or three more people that you can turn to, man. Zabrian in this room is one of my longest workmates. I turn to that person.
We've done the work together. So we want to build that here. All right. Where?
Zoom, Course Portal, and Slack. Who? All of us.
Let's go forward. Here's some key info for iOS, right? Key info for iOS.
Nothing so shocking. Looks real similar. Yeah? I'm going to keep going. Key info for web.
Not so shocking. This stuff you can get in the portal. This stuff is not exactly why we came to orientation.
It's important to know, right? But it's not exactly why we came. So forward we go.
All right, Lake Jones, are you willing to read this slide? Of course. Hold up. We have some spring 2025 housekeeping.
Let's do some housekeeping here. Everybody, I want you to meet our team. Headliner on this slide is that there's a bundle of us making this thing go.
Please always consider displaying gratitude as I do in any environment I go to. There's a lot of people making it go. Codepath is real good.
Codepath is pretty good. Codepath is not as good as we're going to make it next and next and next. Right?
I want you to know. We're going to kick down great work this term, but in summer and fall, and I hope you come back, we want to get better and better and better. That's these people. They're the long-termers. Yeah?
So thank you to those folks who do that work. Let's hear the voices of those who are going to lead your program, right? We are going to have Maxwell, I think, leading us through this slide. We'll go briefly. Each person will get a voice, and Maxwell, take us away.
All right. Hello, everybody. As Liz was saying, I'm going to take a moment now to just introduce some of the faces and people that you're going to be seeing probably a lot of as you're in our courses now and hopefully in the future as well. So obviously Liz Penny just introduced you all. She's the Senior Director of Learning.
We have Susie Liang, who is going to be the Program Manager for Cyber and iOS courses. We have me, I'm Maxwell. I'm going to be the PM for our web courses.
We have Jason, who is at Vodica, who's the Director of Engineering Education. I added Fecha, who's going to be kind of like our staffing manager. And then we have Zabrian, who is going to be the program manager for TIP 101 and TIP 102. So you'll see all faces around. I just want you to put faces or faces to names here.
Next slide, please. So in addition to those faces, you're also probably seeing your classes, these individuals, these are our tech fellow managers. So in your classes, there's going to be these people called tech fellows. These are CodePath alums. So they've taken our classes who doing breakout rooms are going to circulate to help you all out and make sure that you have the understanding that you need on different activities you'll be doing.
So these folks here are going to be the people who manage those tech fellows. So you'll definitely see them in class. Feel free to say hi.
Next slide. And then finally, of course, we have our instructors. Not going to read all the names because there are many, but for web, iOS, cyber, et cetera, our tip classes too. Our classes are unique because they're taught by people who are actually in the industry. These are industry professionals who have a lot of insight and experience that they can share with you all.
And also great people to make connections with as you go through your own career journey. So they're wonderful. They're amazing. And we're really excited for you to be in classes with them and learn from their insights throughout the semester.
Next slide, please. And speaking of your career journey, one of the major benefits of being in our classes, among the many, is that you'll have access when you finish our courses to our career center. The career center has so many resources, including mock interviews.
They have a mentorship program. They have different speakers that come. We have our Emerging Engineer Summit that happens later in the year, which is also open to people who complete our courses, which you can kind of see as a virtual career fair. I saw something to the effect of people who use our career center resources are 38% more likely to land a job or internship. So please take advantage of this.
We'll be talking about it throughout the semester. It's a great resource for you all. And I believe I can pass it back to Liz. You sure can.
Thanks so much, Maxwell. Appreciate it. I do want to get each person's voice in the room, but maybe we'll keep moving forward and see when that moment happens. All right, so here we are.
We have this many more slides to go, and some of that information gets kind of more interesting and thrilling, exciting and active. So let's see what we got. Before we start each class, hello, everybody.
We are a resource available for all who want and can make themselves available for it. All who want and can make themselves available for it. But we do ask. that we attend to some house guidelines, expectations, agreements, right? We ask that people who yes say our classes take the time and a brief moment to be present physically and mentally during classes, to actively build an inclusive community and space, to practice curiosity and adopt a learning mindset.
We're going to get a lot wrong here. That's the whole point. We're going to get together. Practice curiosity and adopt a learning mindset. Nothing wrong with getting a wrong answer, that's the whole point.
Ask for help when we need it and keep our cameras on. That's what we ask. We invite you to join in an element of rigor.
We will hold our environments to it. Folks who are about something else, we are going to invite, ask, and encourage and include. And then we might invite them to come back again another day.
These are really important to us. We're going to do them. We ask that you do them too.
There are some main ways to get a hold of us. Some main ways to get a hold of us. One is through email. And one is through Slack.
This is going to be a handy email. You could take a note, write it down. Maybe you already have it, right?
This is where almost all your questions go. And Slack help channel. I'm going to quickly showcase our Slack here. And then I'm going to come back to it. As you can see, we are practicing the common engineer business practice of using Slack.
Our Slack here. it's a learning tool. It's not a hangout or giant free-for-all space. We want to practice slacking the way that we would practice showing up to work. Yeah.
So in our, for each class, there are going to be a couple channels. There's going to be a technical help channel. I'll speak on that in a moment. There's going to be a programs help channel. Help.
There we go. There'll be a program help channel for each course pathway. and there'll be a community channel. And this is where we can say hi, hello, shoot the breeze.
Please always keep it professional here, but this is where we're going to hang out. And in other channels, we'll ask questions. I want to touch base briefly on how we're going to, so here we are in the iOS channel.
Maybe some of you are already in this one. I want to touch base briefly on how we're going to Slack, and then later we'll come back to practice it together. So first up here, this is your first must know.
This is your first must-know, right? In Slack, we want to use what we call bold header, detail in threads. So you're going to put, in general, we'll come back to this, your question in a bold header and ship it, and then go back and in the comments or in the threads, question for, scares me, that's not really a question, right?
Would someone be willing to walk? me through. Okay, a little bit better spelling than I have, right?
So in general, in Slack, we want a pithy question. Pithy means short, pithy means brief, pithy means to the point, and then put the details in the thread. Yeah?
So everybody put in your own words in the chat what I'm saying to you. Everybody put in your own words in the chat what I'm saying to you. Hi, Myrna.
Hey, everybody. Atlanta, let's go. Thank you, Christian Puerto. Thank you.
Where can I join? Okay, we're going to come back to that and make a thread to ask a question. Thank you, Catherine. Ask a question. Short and sweet.
Thank you, Louis. Canada. Canada. Thank you, Abdullahi. Okay, keep it concise.
Yeah, keep it concise. Okay, great. This is good.
This is good. This is good. This is good.
Okay, so let me do one more demo. Once again, with 7,000 of us, it's pretty important that we hit this part cleanly early in the game. Yeah, so let me do one more demo.
All right, what is wrong with this? What is not wrong, but what's missing? What's the problem? What's the part that's not going to help us get there? No bold header, lacking context, too vague.
Yes, I can't tell you how often people write in with something like this, right? And then you say something like, can you be specific? This happens all the time. Can you be specific, please?
Thank you, Karl Vensky. Can you be specific, please? Okay, there goes Karl Wenske.
So Karl Wenske, I'm going to role play with you right now. I have a problem. Someone help me. This is too hard. Why did they do it like this?
Okay, what's the problem with what I'm doing here? Right? What's the issue?
Karl is cooking. It's very, very vague. And I'm not making it easy to help me, right? Like, you don't even know what my problem is yet. I haven't said what I've tried, right?
Insert. Whoopsie. Yes, exactly. Okay, so somebody coach me.
Coach me in the chat. Tell me one thing I should... Okay, there goes Carl Renske.
Carl is cooking. Can you share more details? What are you talking about?
Okay, be more specific. Okay, I'm on problem three, and it's giving me hard times. Okay, now one more time, Carl.
Yes, exactly, everybody. Mention specific problem in the issue. Thank you, thank you, thank you, everybody. Let's go, Carl. Okay, one more time, Carl.
One more time, Carl. Let's see what he's got. Hope you're all Miss Penny.
Who's that? Hi, Rajiv. Hello.
My problem screen is giving me hard times. He's loading up. I know.
Really, what's good? Okay, what's wrong? Oh, okay.
Look at that. That's a very interesting approach. Look at this.
What would you, how would you describe it? This is our last beat here. Everybody put it in the chat.
How would you describe it? Yeah, Joseph Gormley. Oh, hi. I think I know you, Joseph Gormley.
Yeah, right? I would say it's kind, it's neutral, it's putting the specificity responsibility back on the engineer, right? I'm not really being that specific here. And he's kind, neutral, curious, and putting the specificity responsibility back onto me.
Indeed. Okay. Now we're cooking. Carl Vensky for all the marbles.
What course are you in? Oh, I guess you're in iOS. You have to, okay. Carl Vensky, everybody.
Let's get a little emoji round of applause. All right, all right, all right, all right. Not so bad.
Not so bad. We're gonna make it. We're gonna get somewhere.
Okay. All right. So let's talk Slack strategy, right?
Please, good people. Keep in mind that when you ask a question, even when we're frustrated, concerned, confused, discouraged, et cetera, the specifics help. And I'm so excited.
I'm stumbling over my words. All right. That was too much for me.
I'm in too good of a mood. I'm in too good of a mood now. All right. Well, I guess I got to keep going. Okay.
One more thing about... Shoot. I'm going to do it. How many more slides do I have?
Yeah, okay, one more thing about Slack. I gotta go back, everybody, because we are cooking. So my neighbor, Karl Wensky, are you willing to roll for two?
Roll for two means I'm gonna prompt you to something else, and I think it's gonna be easy. I would never try and surprise or challenge unnecessarily on stage. Karl Wensky, are you willing to roll for two?
You just say yes or no, or, okay, Karl Wensky says yes. Okay, so, hey, there's a lot of us, and we wanna know who you are when you're in our more general channels. So, Karl Wensky, I'm gonna invite you.
to go to your profile and rename yourself and everybody do this at home. Everybody do this at home. I'd invite you to go to your profile and rename so that it tells us iOS 101. So it tells us what course and level you're in.
Because then when Liz Penny forgets to like be specific and says problem three is too hard, then it's easy for us to tell where the person is coming from. Yeah. So, Carl Vensky, are you willing, for all the marbles, to everybody do this at home, go to your profile, go to your name, and edit it to show your course and your level?
Carl Vensky, what have you got for us? Oh, da-da! If you earn two or more courses, then what to do?
You list them both. Win, Carl. Indeed. He is quick with it.
That's what I'm always saying, Iman. I'm saying that Carl, quick with it. I know, Gabriel, what can I say?
Okay, well, my job here is done. No, just kidding. We have more content to get through.
But that was more than an orientation sometimes gets to. So we're putting the pathway down. Okay, here we go.
We're gonna rock it through a little bit more content. At some point, we might take a stretch break. And in 29 short minutes, we will be moving on. All right. So there are some key elements of our program.
No surprise here. Sessions are key. The portal is key. I have the portal over here. We'll take a look in a sec.
Projects are key. Attendance and engagement is key. Peers, consistency, and learner confidence are our key element, right?
You don't need to know the answer. You don't need to know. You need to be willing to find out how to find out. Find out how to find out.
Yeah, Abdullah, only change the display name. I think that's right. Yeah. I get mixed up myself sometimes between display name and et cetera, but I think that's right.
Okay. So where are we with the old key elements? Where are we?
Core game plan, key elements. All right. Uh, Susie, is it your turn yet?
Am I still doing this? Maxwell, back to you. Okay. Yeah. We're going to talk a little bit about some house rules or some expectations that we have in terms of how our class operate, classes operate.
Can we go to the next slide, please? Okay, so for one thing, we expect that you come to every class. I know that there are things that come up and there are some policies that are related to how many absences you have, etc. But in order to move us toward technical excellence, we do expect that you're coming to all 10 sessions and we're making our best effort to do that. In addition, when you come to those classes, it's not enough just to log on to the Zoom, right?
We want you to be present visually, verbally, and digitally. That means that we have our cameras on. that we're using our mic when we're working with our peers in breakout rooms, right?
That we're being constant communication if there is a reason we have to step away from the computer, et cetera, et cetera, that we're present and engaged in the classes, because that's going to make it so much more enjoyable for you, and you'll get much more of the experience that way. We're going to ask that we practice curiosity and adopt a learning mindset. There might be some things in classes, hopefully there are things in classes that are completely new for you, which you haven't gone through before, right?
And it's going to be important to ask those questions like an engineer would in order to work your way through those. So, and push through when there is some difficulty. Ask for help when you need it. We love questions.
We want you to ask all the questions and make sure that you're furthering your understanding of these topics. That's why we have help channels, which I believe you all were added to very recently, which you can ask those kinds of questions to get the technical help that you need. And while we have our tech fellows, or I guess you can kind of see them as tech teaching assistants who will circulate. Ask them questions. Ask each other questions, right?
We're here to grow and to learn. And in that vein, we're building a space of clear rigor, warm welcome, and joyful persistence, right? We're attacking all the things that we're learning with an excitement, with an enthusiasm in order to grow ourselves as learners. And that's what we're going to be doing throughout these 10 weeks together.
Next slide. Actually, the next, next slide. Oh, sorry. Go ahead.
Yes, Maxwell. Oh, cool. And one thing I do want to talk about with in terms of how our classes are structured is just to call out that after a lecture in each class, there will be a moment where you go into breakout rooms.
Here you'll be with a group of four to seven students. And what you'll be doing for about 45 minutes to an hour, it might depend on the class session, is working through a problem or working through a project or an activity that has to do with whatever lecture topic you went over that day. So these are great opportunities to do a couple of things. One, it's a great chance to obviously practice the skills that you just learned.
But secondly, these are great opportunities to practice your professional communication skills. When you're in the tech industry, you're not just going to be in some room coding by yourself, or maybe you will if you're working from home, but you're still collaborating with other people actively. So learning how to communicate about your code, how to debug together, how to talk through your code together, is really crucial for your success in the industry.
And we're giving you the opportunity to do that in our classes to develop that muscle and a space which is kind of lower risk, but a space that you can really develop these skills of working together and working collaboratively. So we did want to call attention to these Brick-It Rooms because they are a really key feature of our classes. Next slide.
I'm going to play Bear. I'm going to pause you right there and say I'm seeing in the chat that there is some probably mayhem or mischief maybe happening in our other chat spaces. I see some chill, please, and okay, and where the mod's at, and stop spamming. So I'm going to head on over to Slack while Maxwell is continuing to carry us through.
Good people, the Slack is here for good. Use it for the powers of good, and we'll help us all learn how. If some are doing too much, much, much, then we'll just have to figure out the right way to redirect.
The point is that there are... Easy spaces, professional spaces. And that's why we give you the community space to practice what it's like to speak professionally in a more casual way. So none of these spaces are free for all and none of them are free for you to color all over however we care to. They're all here to foster the right amount of fun, the right amount of mischief, and the right amount of togetherness.
So I'm going to head on over there. Maxwell, back over to you. Cool.
All right. Next slide, please. Susie, do you want to take this one? Yes.
So hi, everyone. I'm Susie. I'm one of the program manager and I was introduced prior to this.
And I'm so glad to be here. Maxwell just went over how we show up to class, how we work in teams. How are we going to bring about our professionalism when we work together in our classroom? And I'm going to go a little bit deeper into these four keys for successful collaboration. I think we've all joined rooms before, Zoom rooms, whether that's like rooms in person or Zoom rooms where the collaboration isn't really flowing.
We're like trying to get some answers or trying to get some co-working time together. But it. it kind of is a dud at times, right? So these are some four key ways to be successful in our classroom and to bring the best self that you have to your team. The first one is that everyone participates.
Give everybody the mic. Have everybody be able to speak. Cameras are strongly encouraged and you should use your mics. You're there to spend time with your teammates to know them more and to build towards like if it's iOS, an app, web, it's... a website and then cyber it'll be a capstone and a shark tank like presentation at the end so be in this environment be present be with them and have everybody share the mic structure your time use an id to easily collaborate using the driver navigator method just make sure that you give everybody the space to be the driver and also the space to kind of sit back and be a part of the team and not always be the driver Give space for all, don't monopolize the conversation, and be respectful.
I think we're very, this is a top key for a successful collaboration because respect comes out in very many ways. And when you work with a team, there's ways in which you can collaborate respectfully and understand that there are differences in the room, but also know when to like answer questions, when to be supportive and help and express those differences and opinions within your team. Next slide, please.
All right, folks, Susie is not playing around. We're not kidding. Respect is a cornerstone, and we will invite people to make their move, right? We want this to be a learning space, but we also want it to be learning mostly about web and cyber.
And if there are true questions about how do I organize my professionalism, we're happy to support them. But we didn't come to straight hangout, right? This is not a hangout space.
This is a workspace, and we want it to be a fun one. So we got to keep it. committed.
And I want to commit to you that I'm willing to do my part as a leader here to make sure that we're not getting off track. Thank you. Thank you, Liz. All right.
So note on camera and mic policy, we request that you have your cameras on and that you use your mic so that you could create this space that's welcoming, engaging. It's really difficult to join a room and then everybody's off mic, off camera. There's no way of connecting because we are all On this World Wide Web and joining from Zoom, there's ways in which cameras help and also your mic coming off mic when you're doing collaborative work really helps with getting the ideas and juices running.
If you have a tech issue, please email support at Codepaths.org. Or if there's any issues that you have that's preventing you to come off mic or off camera, first let your groupmate know, groupmates and tech fellows know. still make sure to actively contribute, whether that's in the chat or asynchronously. And then again, reach out to support at codepath.org so that we know that you have an ongoing issue and we could support you in any way possible. Next slide.
Okay, back to you, Liz. All right. Excellent.
Thank you, Susie. And with 20 minutes to go, we are rocketing forward. I see a bunch of questions in the chat about what if I can't find my way into Slack? Quick question.
What if I can't get to Slack? I'm going to speak on that in this next beat here. So let's take a little look. I also see that there's a question about... Great for everybody to be on camera.
Thank you, Seth. Let's connect. Cybersecurity.
Daniel, yep. Okay, here we go. Let's party. So your do-nows.
Good people, between today and Tuesday, or whichever day your class is on, right? Between today and Tuesday, you have, I have, we have some do-nows. First... Please prepare to engage. If we're going to be on camera, we need a background that works, right?
We need lighting that works. We need snacks that work. You know what I'm saying?
So please get your space and yourself ready. Ready for the joy of trying it. The joy of trying it, right?
There are some in this room for on camera is going to be a little nerve-wracking, you know? Or doing that first web project is going to be a little nerve-wracking. Please prepare to engage. Get your space and yourself ready.
Whoopsie. Keep an eye on Slack. Some of you are saying, but Liz, how can I?
I'm not on Slack. Still coming to you. Still coming to you about that.
Keep an eye on Slack. We're going to have some previews, help, and hangs there. Add operations at to your email.
I don't know what you call it, server or who's he, what he, right? Add operations at as a known address. That way you get our calendar alerts.
Some are getting too many of our calendar alerts. I think there's a small segment that have gotten a number of calendar alerts, which is not the plan, and we're working on it, but most have gotten just the right number. of calendar alerts and we want you to have access to our calendar events.
Please install tools. Some courses here, some courses here are going to invite you to have a specific kind of tool, right, for that class. For example, Cyber 101, a virtual machine is going to be a necessity and here's a virtual machine access guide in Cyber 101. Yeah, other courses have other tools that are needed, but please before your first day See the course portal for instructions.
Check out your Getting Started tab and course overview, any access guide, and come rolling up to class day one setup. All right. Ah, and here, before the Slack finale, rolling up next, if you, like me, prefer solving problems together as a group and you're having some kind of digital readiness difficulty, You can't find Slack.
You didn't get a course portal invite. You can't figure out your virtual machine. We're having, we're hosting, this is going another 15 minutes, we're hosting a Fix It Garage series.
A Fix It Garage series is in your course portal. I'm showing you cyber here, though not everybody is in this section of cyber. But in every course portal, we have information on what we're calling the Fix It garages.
This Sunday, look, say it with me, people. This Sunday at 12 p.m. Pacific and 4 p.m.
Pacific, we're having an opportunity to come live and get some of your digital issues sorted. This Sunday, getting your digital issues sorted. Yeah, you would click the link here.
You would use this password and come on in this Sunday at 12 p.m. in order. to get your digital readiness settled and sorted. Yeah? Yeah.
There's two reasons people might not be in Slack yet. One is because we haven't invited you. As engineers, you can know that actually getting 7,000 people into Slack is a lot of invites, and sometimes the old API is not in a good mood about that. And so we actually add people in waves and layers. So one reason you might not be in Slack yet is because we haven't invited you.
It's not like that. We're going to invite you by day one of class. The other reason you might not be there is because we have invited you, but somehow it's been difficult to join. You didn't see the join link, et cetera, et cetera. And that's where a number of people are saying also that you can find some of the Slack information in the course portal, right?
Like need help, post on our class Slack channel. I click here, it would boost me into the Slack. It might turn me back if I haven't gotten the invite yet though. Yeah.
So most people are able to find their way to Slack easily. And also, if you're having difficulty, come to our Fix It Garage. Come to our Fix It Garage, and we'll be happy to help you fix it. Okay.
Lake, would you read this slide with your most, like, mmm, zhuzh voice? Because we're all well-tired here, and we want to carry through this 15 minutes. Of course. So great. We're understood, and we're super pumped.
But we do have an edge case or we need some help. Hey, where can I get my help? Say it with me at home, everybody.
Fix-It Garage. If you need help or have an edge case or don't understand or got a little turned around, you can come to our Fix-It Garages. This Sunday, there's two separate options. You can also go to our Slack help channels.
Once again, there's a separate one for program questions and technical questions. Don't mix up your hi hellos. Don't muddy up our technical question channel with hi hellos.
And they are not spaces to fully play around. Fully playing around. Way off topic playing around. That's why I have the delete button.
And you'll all be coming to your office quickly. We simply don't have time to get distracted, everybody. We are on a mission for, as I said, technical. Excellent. Okay, last couple slides here.
If you need help, come to a Fix-It Garage or hit us up in Slack. The other place you can always go is support at codepath.org. Will the slides be posted, Caleb, for all the marbles?
Yes. I don't know exactly how, but yes, it'll be posted, probably in Slack and in your portal. How can we access a Fix-It Garage through the portal?
Samuel, I'll do it one more time. Thank you, Jocelyn. Fix-It Garage is in the schedule. Yeah, you can have the video recorded, Ishizona. I'm hoping I pronounced that right, and if not I'll learn in class more.
through the portal, through the schedule, through the little carrot with Weekly Fix-It Garage. The time is here and the link is here. You're welcome, Samuel.
You're very welcome. It's my pleasure. Okay, so in just one moment, with 13 minutes to go on Valentine's Day 2025, we're gonna go forth, yeah? Our exit tickets from today.
Our exit tickets from today. I would like you to post in the chat first, in order everybody, one key idea from today. One key idea from today. What is this nice lady trying to say to us?
What's the main idea here? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yes.
Yes. Yes. Be brief. I like that one.
Be respectful. Tech excellence. Communicate.
Participate. Be professional. Yeah.
Okay, those are good main ideas. I like it. Okay, and now transition your comments to a yay, a yikes, or a huh from today.
Put something that was a yay for you. Or, oh, I get it. Sorry. Put what was the yay? Like hearing from Lake, or Susie's voice, or what have you.
Put what was the yay? Like not just yay. Okay, good, good, good, good.
And if you have a yikes, like yikes, these people seem too friendly. Or yikes, they want me to be on camera. It's okay. We can, we can, we have room. Yikes, I'm scared of cyber 102. Okay, all right.
Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. All right. And finally, one moment you're looking forward to.
One moment you're looking forward to in this class. One moment you're looking forward to in this class. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay. And finale. finale. We want to make these better and better each time.
Hit me with a one to five scale. Was this orientation helpful to you in building a smile, a little bit of context? Okay, good.
It's okay if you're a three. I want to know. It's okay. I'm trying to do, I'm trying to get us there, right? And if it's a three, it's a three.
If it's a one, I say, I saw one one. It's fine. Sold. I love it. Okay, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great.
Engineers, let's go. Engineers, let's go. Engineers and engineers and engineers, let's go. All right.
You get to hear two more voices from the room because you haven't heard it, and then Lake Jones is hanging up on us with a pep talk and counting us out. Zabrian, would you introduce yourself in brief? Then Jason, would you introduce yourself in brief? And will you pass the lake so we can go?
Zabrian. Absolutely. Thank you for welcoming me to the mic. Hello, everybody.
My name is Zabrian Oglesby. You're also welcome to call me Z, pronouns easier and they them. I serve as the TIP 101 and 102 program manager.
occasionally I might float over to cyber web or iOS if I can. I'd love to hang out with you. I'm going to pass to Jason. I am Jason Wodica, pronouns they, them, or others. You will find me all over the place.
I am the director of engineering education. I will also be the teacher for some folks in probably one of the tip classes, I believe. And I am here to just help make how we teach better. You'll probably run into me in something on the Slack. And yeah, you've got questions.
reach out. But thank you all for popping off, by the way. I'm a Twitch streamer, and this is, it is fun watching Twitch pop off here.
And now I'm going to throw over to Lake. I hope you all felt so, so good about all the information that you all were able to soak up like sponges today. So very honored to be in this panel around all these amazing and excellent brains. And I'm really, really excited to have you all as students, especially for web.
But yeah, it was super, super awesome. seeing all you were seeing all your energy um and yeah we're gonna sign out in three two one bye guys and we'll keep the room open as the people flow away goodbye we're at 1.7 000 1.6 1.5 bye see you soon we're gonna wait till we get down to the last little little few at the party and then we'll zip See you soon. Please get prepared. Get that virtual machine started.
If you have questions, if you have questions, we can try and take a few here. It's not going to work super great, but I'll give it a whirl. Let's let the room get all the way down to maybe 100, something like that. Right. The other place for questions is support at or those Slack channels, which we're going to learn to wrangle together.
Because I feel that's our next step. As a team. All right. Is there attendance is one question.
Can you sing that song one more time? I can. I can and I will, Samuel.
But I sang a lot of songs, so it's hard to say which one you might be thinking of. Is there attendance? Isaac, the answer is yes. Yes. And for those who didn't attend, we will be sending a recording and a quiz.
We do ask that everybody do either coming here or the recording and the quiz. Thank you so much. Happy Valentine's Day. Can you please provide a link? to join the Slack.
I don't know, Gupreet. Maybe. Maybe an operations person can do that. You're welcome, Leslie. Leila.
Sorry, Leila. Whoopsies. Can we have a recording after this?
Yes, you can. How do we know if someone attended? Because we have tactics and skills like that. That's how we know. Just kidding.
The way that you come in through the Zoom registration, that's how we count. Where should I take the quiz? Everyone is mentioning that in mail we have to complete the quiz.
That is correct, Pranava. We're going to email it to you. The operations team is going to email it to you. Was there an attendance sheet? Shristi, we took your attendance by means of you coming in to Zoom.
Will there be a certificate? If you pass the course, then the answer is yes, Ricardo. Where do we post the exit ticket? You post in the Slack. I'm sorry.
Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. You post here, Fatima. It was just sort of an engagement tool. It wasn't like a exit ticket, like a concrete one.
So you can post here. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you, Dev. You're welcome.
Okay, okay. Okay. There was one question I think scrolled past that I would like us to answer. Yeah, let's do it.
If you're in one of these classes and tip, are we covering the same material in both of these? Hey, kind of not. Kind of not. Do you have to come to both? I recommend it.
Tip adaptive is kind of different if you really can't watch the recording. So you're liable for both sessions, right? But you could watch the recording if you need to.
I hope to see you there. I never got my cyber certificate. Please email.
Uh, support at, I hope the instructor has the energy that Liz has. Thank you. We'll see about that.
Oh, hi, Jocelyn Mata. It's you. Hello.
Um, does the real link, does the link in the portal direct to the real Codepath Slack channel? It directs to the Codepath Slack workspace, workspace. So you would like pop into the big workspace, but it might, or it doesn't go straight to the channel, channel, channel, right? You still would have to be invited to the channels.
Fix it garage or support at is great. Please can, where can I find the recording for this session? You can, we're going to send it to you.
And also you can find it in the course portal. Who is waiting for tip 101, 102 with me? I am, FYI. The pod number stuff will become meaningful in the future. You don't have your pod numbers yet.
That's fine. You don't need them for today, but that's how it's going to work in the future. My question wasn't answered.
What if my Mac camera isn't working for iOS class? I can use a different device. You can, but we recommend, so in tip.
I don't know what's going on in iOS. I'll be honest. But in tip, no phones. No phones.
You got to take it from a laptop. So you can use a different, oh, use a different device. Yes, people dial in sometimes with two devices. Sometimes I've seen students do that. Engineers do that.
They have a laptop to work and like a phone or something to offer the camera. But you got to be holding still, face in frame, nice background, viewable, viewable. All right.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Hit me with your last round of questions, everybody.
How many of you? There's still 436 of you, of us, as it were. If late, will attendance be counted? I came 30 minutes after. No, you will not be counted, Tracy.
45 minutes is our cutoff in this call. Is there anything we need to fill out as proof of attendance today? Nope, just coming on in.
Oh, thank you, Varsity. Thank you. We give it a shot.
What time will be the classes Tuesday and Thursday? Guillermo can't say because different classes are at different times. But if you're saying the word Tuesday, Thursday. It kind of makes me think you might be in TIP, because TIP is a Tuesday, Thursday class. And this session, just FYI, is special topics, Cyber Web 101, only happens once a week.
But there are those classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. So your particular, what do I mean by 45? Tracy, I mean 45 minutes of this session.
Yeah, so it was 60 minutes long. And 45 minutes of the session is a cutoff for what we're considering present or absent. You can watch the resulting segment of the recording.
You know, just watch the 15 minutes and answer the quiz. Wait, what's the exit ticket? You're welcome, Tracy.
What's the exit ticket? It's a, it's a, the exit ticket is over. Ranjish, you're okay.
It was just, what did you like about today? It was just a social exit ticket. Thank you for everything.
What is a prop number? I don't know. That's probably pod numbers. Oh, what is a pod number?
Pods will- They'll happen. In the future. Pods will come.
Thank you so much. You're so welcome. You're welcome.
Do I need to take cyber? No, Cameron, each class gets its own certificate. That's right, Chabela.
Only those in absentia. And thank you for bringing that word to our community. Too late to apply for TIP. Fati, yes. Not for summer.
We're about to open applications for summer. Come join me at TIP this summer. We need to take a quiz only if you weren't here.
So if you're here and you're asking, what is the meaning of CodePath? Intense. What is the meaning of CodePath? How do we get to the course portal?
Adrienne Reyes for all the marbles. Your question is the final one. When do summer classes start? June 3rd, the week of June 3rd. You go to courses.codepath.org and your course should pop up.
You also hopefully got it in an admissions email. I joined late. Is there anything I need to do? Yes, Jared, watch the video that we'll be sending to you and take the quiz. Get your virtual machine ready.
What do I mean by that? Abel, if you are in cyber, you'll need a virtual machine. You can read up on it. Sorry, here.
You can read up on it in our course portal, but not every class needs a virtual machine. Who should I reach out to for switching my section? Bobby, for all the marbles, somebody tell Bobby who to reach out to. It's the email that we talked to.
Somebody tell Bobby. CodePath is an interactive program. Somebody tell Bobby.
Okay, it's, thank you, Lake Jones. Thank you. Support at Codepath.org.
When do applications for summer open? About three weeks from now. In Cyber 102, which operating system do we use? Maybe Susie can respond to that one. What quiz?
Bella, for people who are absent or missed more than 30 minutes, missed more than 15 minutes, we're sending out a quiz. The orientation meeting works for the two classes, web and interview one. No, Guillermo, tip 101, interview is different. So you'd need to watch that one or take that quiz also.
Or come. Oh, I was here since I started. Okay, great.
Thank you, Guillermo. You're very welcome. Have a good day, Daniel.
Thank you. Is VM okay for Mac? Fatih, great question. Maybe Jason. We probably don't have the right people on this call to answer the VM.
Because I know that for the cybersecurity, we talk about a VM. I would want to check in with your instructor because... VMs can one, get you on the right operating system, but they can also provide some security if you're gonna do things on that operating system that you might not want to let your main machine have.
So we should check in with the instructor on that. I don't think we can answer that here because we don't have somebody who's a specialist in cyber. A program question in the cyber chat.
Which one of the VM are we using? Some use Azure. Also, there's an information here about your options, right?
So if you can see what I'm posting here, Kabla. You can see it already tells you about the options in the course portal. Do you use your project submitted on day of class itself?
The night before Agrica. The night before. Midnight Pacific.
The night before. Midnight Pacific. The night before.
No, does the link in the portal direct to the real Codepath Slack channel? No. It points to the Codepath Slack workspace, but that's different than the channel.
Khosrow, some people have been added and some people have not. That's hard right now for the room. I got to the wrong section.
Do I have to attend the next one? Yeah, tip is going to be different. Tip is going to be different.
Do I have to be super proficient in any language? I'm in Cyber 101, C++ and Python. You do not need to be super proficient.
My understanding of Cyber 101, Susie, correct me if I'm wrong, is partly that it's designed for people who are at the beginning of their journey. We'll end applications for Summer Open about three weeks from now. I wonder if Cyber 101 only has the tech help channel. That's a good question.
Hugh, if that's the truth, we'll have fixed it by day one. Okay, this is coming along very nicely. And it's drawing to an end.
And checking for questions. Subject line of the email. Do you need to submit your project?
Okay, I'm coming back to the main room with my face. I see that some people have raised hands, but in this format, I don't think the raised hand works as well. So I will stay on. I'm going to give a wrap up, pump up speech. You're welcome, Eric.
Thank you. I'm going to give a wrap up, pump up speech and close the room one more time. And then I'll still stay on for the last set of questions.
Yeah. All right. So everybody, thanks so much for coming to our orientation. We hope that you too have a Valentine's Day filled.
with the right amount of code, compiling, and companions. Have a great day. Have a great evening. We'll catch you soon. And by soon, I mean Sunday at our Fix-It Garages or next week.
and in the Slack channels. The room will stay open for the question finales, but let's all go home and get out in three, two, the room stays open, one, goodbye, goodbye, go, go forth, get out, we'll see you soon. Do we teach intermediate web development? Yes, we do, but you have to sign now. at this point, summer is the time to sign up for that.
Do we have to email the support channel to be added to Slack? You can be expected to be answered in usually 24 to 36 hours. And you could. We think we're going to invite everybody to Slack.
But once again, with 7,000, you just never know. What classes do you teach? Like me? They don't let me.
I get to help all the classes. I'm underneath and inside and with you all the time. Can we ask for access to view the course for the intermediate?
It's a little too late, Matthew. We are considering logging requests. Right now, we don't offer sec level switches, right? Someone's like, I'm in 101. Can I be in 102? We say, no, come back in summer.
But we also are thinking about it. To be honest, we're like, well, we should think about it. So probably we'll have a form where it's like, I'd like to switch.
And we'll say, we're not doing that. And please tell us if you want to, just so we can count our numbers. We want to understand our students' interests better, right? So right now, the answer is we're not switching levels. If that changes, we'll reach out to you.
We would reach out because you would fill out a form that like helps us understand. Okay. Thank you for the awesome closing speech. Richard Williams IV, thank you for bringing your name to our setting.
Where can I find the recording for this session? Ah, Umayna. Umayna. I look forward to learning how to pronounce that name pristinely. The recording will be in the portal.
And let me go all the way to show you where. And also we will be emailing it to people, I believe. So let's go all the way here.
Oh, nope. Shortly, the units will be open here on the left-hand side. And inside the units, there'll be resources. And the resources tab will pop you to a recording.
I got your name right. Oh my gosh. Oh, it's over.
Right. Where can we find the quiz, please? Come now.
I have mentioned this a number of times and I will be happy to mention it again because I want people informed. Yeah, we're gonna be emailing you the quiz. If for people who were here, weren't here, we're gonna be emailing you the quiz. You cannot see the screen share because I am not screen sharing.
How many times do we have to miss a class? Come with me, everybody. Over, nope, where is it?
Under getting started. Our portal is a little bit. we have a lot of information on here, but it's kind of hard to find sometimes under, once again, getting started.
We go all the way down to our policies. And for special topics, everybody, up to two absences out of 10 weeks, 80%, got to be here for 80%. I want to tell you for tip, it's a different number because they have 20 sessions.
You have 10, tip has 20. So don't get it like twisted, right? Some people will get like confused for... classes that happen once a week, you have up to two absences, 80%.
For classes that happen twice a week, you have up to three. Okay, how many times can we miss a class? Thank you.
Where's the portal located? Interesting question. Courses.codepath.org. Hopefully it was sent to you in an admissions email. I mean, we believe that it was sent to everybody in an admissions email.
Okay, are they sending us the Zoom link for our class again a day before it starts? Yes, I think we do. I also want to tell you that the link is in the portal. The link is in the portal.
If you go under schedule, course schedule, I think the link is in the portal. Session link, booyah. Click here, passcode code path.
Okay, yes. I want to be able to say bet in a way that sounds natural. You know what I mean?
It's a journey for me. So I'm not going to try right now. Maybe we're all getting good at stuff.
We're all getting good at stuff. Okay, waiting for the next orientation stay in this room. Uh, no, I think it's a different room. I think you got to go. I think you got to get out and me too, to get some water and pet my dog.
And I'll see you in the next one. All right, everybody. This one is for realsies.
163 of you are out there. And I'll catch you on the flip side. This is CodePath, Zabrian, Susie, Jason, our phenomenal operations team, Maxwell.
Big thanks. Go to Jen and her team. And I'll catch you on the flip side.
This is Liz Penny signing off in three, two, peace.