Every session begins with an energiser. Usually there’s a rota showing who will lead the energiser. We have some favourite games you can play if you are stuck.

Traffic Jam: re-order the cars to unblock yourself
Telephone: draw the words and write the pictures
Popcorn show and tell: popcorn around the room and show one nearby object or something in your pocket or bag and explain what it means to you.

Learning Objectives

Introduce and welcome new volunteers
Nominate a timekeeper
Check the morning day plan and group structures

Planning during the week

🧭 During the week, create a post on Slack and get some people to take on the roles of facilitator and timekeeper. Nominate new people each time.

👣 Steps

If you haven’t done so already, choose someone (volunteer or trainee) to be the facilitator for this morning orientation block. Choose another to be the timekeeper.

🎙️ The Facilitator will:

Assemble the entire group (all volunteers & all trainees) in a circle
Briefly welcome everyone with an announcement, like this:
💬 “Morning everyone, Welcome to CYF {REGION}, this week we are working on {MODULE} {SPRINT} and we’re currently working on {SUMMARISE THE TOPICS OF THE WEEK}”
Ask any newcomers to introduce themselves to the group, and welcome them.
Now check: is it the start of a new module? Is it sprint 1? If so, read out the success criteria for the new module.
Next go through the morning day plan only (typically on the curriculum website) - and check the following things:

Facilitator Checklist

Check the number of volunteers you have for the morning
Check someone is leading each session
Describe how any new activities works for the group
Decide how best to allocate trainees and volunteers for a given block - most blocks will make this clear

⏰ The Timekeeper will:

Announce the start of an activity and how long it will take (check everyone is listening)
Manage any whole class timers that are used in an activity
Give people a 10-minute wrap-up warning before the end of an activity
Announce the end of an activity and what happens next

Learning Objectives

Apply concepts from study to a practical example
Work together on exercises and activities to find gaps in understanding
Describe and resolve mental model errors

This space is for a workshop activity of your choosing. In order for this to actually happen, you must organise it ahead of time.

What is a CYF workshop?

👷🏿‍♀️ No lectures

Code Your Future workshops are designed to be interactive. Developed by volunteers and trainees, they are not about listening to a lecture. They are about doing, discussing, and learning together.

💪🏾 No spoonfeeding

Workshops are also not tutorials, where you follow along step-by-step. CYF workshops are meant to expose gaps and mistakes in your understanding, so mentors can help you fix them. This means you should expect to be challenged and to make mistakes. This is the main value of mentor-led workshops.

👂🏿 Responding to needs

You can run a workshop in person on class days, or online in the week. Mentors volunteer to run workshops on Slack, and learners propose topics they need help with. There are a huge number of workshops available at workshops.codeyourfuture.io/.

Organise a workshop on Slack

🗂️ Options

Objects [Tech] (60 Mins)

Instructions

This workshop aims to check your understanding.

Each task will explain whether or not you should run the code.

For each task, you can use Data Groups Sprint 2 prep to help you with the questions. You can also use documentation to look up any functions that are unfamiliar. Don’t use ChatGPT or any other AI tool to help you.

🧰 Setup

Get into pairs or groups of up to three.
Make sure you have a clone of the CYF-Workshops repository on your local machine

This workshop can be found here 👉 https://github.com/CodeYourFuture/CYF-Workshops/tree/main/objects In this workshop, each file contains a different problem at a particular level.

You should start this project at Level 100 and then move through the levels in ascending order, level 200, 300 etc.

➡️ Go to Level 100

Debugging 2 [Tech] (60 Mins)

Debugging workshop - 2

Please follow the steps below:

The class should split up into seperate groups / breakout rooms.
Each team should check debug_checklist.md file first and discuss which other strategies they would consider for debugging codes.
Instructors will pick up one of the team’s checklist and do a demo for levels 100 and 200 in front of the whole group.
Trainees go back to their breakout rooms and debug level 300 in their teams.

Every Saturday we cook and eat together. We share our food and our stories. We learn about each other and the world. We build community.

This is everyone’s responsibility, so help with what is needed to make this happen, for example, organising the food, setting up the table, washing up, tidying up, etc. You can do something different every week. You don’t need to be constantly responsible for the same task.

Learning Objectives

Resolve blockers in your coursework
Express and resolve problems effectively by writing tickets and asking questions
Give and receive code review
Develop your personal portfolio
Pair programme
Evaluate your progress with peers and mentors

What are we doing now?

You’re going to use this time to work through coursework. Your cohort will collectively self-organise to work through the coursework together in your own way. Sort yourselves into groups that work for you.

Use this time wisely

You will have study time in almost every class day. Don’t waste it. Use it to:

work through the coursework
ask questions and get unblocked
give and receive code review
work on your portfolio
develop your own projects

🛎️ Code waiting for review 🔗 ⏰ 15:20

Below are trainee coursework Pull Requests that need to be reviewed by volunteers.

ITP JAN 2025 LONDON | ELFREDAH KEVIN-ALERECHI | DATA GROUP | SPRINT 3 🔗

Complete the task list below this message. If your PR is rejected, check the task list.

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Learners, PR Template

Self checklist

I have committed my files one by one, on purpose, and for a reason
I have titled my PR with COHORT_NAME | FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME | REPO_NAME | WEEK
I have tested my changes
My changes follow the style guide
My changes meet the requirements of this task

Changelist

Briefly explain your PR.

Questions

Ask any questions you have for your reviewer.

Start a review

London_ITP_Jan_2025 | Franklin Kamela | Module_Data_Groups | Feature_ToDo_List 🔗

Learners, PR Template

Self checklist

I have committed my files one by one, on purpose, and for a reason
I have titled my PR with COHORT_NAME | FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME | REPO_NAME | WEEK
I have tested my changes
My changes follow the style guide
My changes meet the requirements of this task

Changelist

splitting up sprint 3 into multiple PRs to submit each assignment.

Questions

Ask any questions you have for your reviewer.

Start a review

London_ITP_Jan_2025 | Franklin Kamela | Module_Data_Groups | Feature_Slideshow 🔗

Learners, PR Template

Self checklist

I have committed my files one by one, on purpose, and for a reason
I have titled my PR with COHORT_NAME | FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME | REPO_NAME | WEEK
I have tested my changes
My changes follow the style guide
My changes meet the requirements of this task

Changelist

splitting up sprint 3 into multiple PRs for each assignment.

Questions

Ask any questions you have for your reviewer.

Start a review

London_ITP_Jan_2025 | Franklin Kamela | Module_Data_Groups | Feature_Reading_List 🔗

Learners, PR Template

Self checklist

I have committed my files one by one, on purpose, and for a reason
I have titled my PR with COHORT_NAME | FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME | REPO_NAME | WEEK
I have tested my changes
My changes follow the style guide
My changes meet the requirements of this task

Changelist

splitting up sprint 3 into multiple PRs for each assignment.

Questions

Ask any questions you have for your reviewer.

Start a review

London_ITP_Jan_2025 | Franklin Kamela | Module_Data_Groups | Feature_Quote_Generator 🔗

Learners, PR Template

Self checklist

I have committed my files one by one, on purpose, and for a reason
I have titled my PR with COHORT_NAME | FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME | REPO_NAME | WEEK
I have tested my changes
My changes follow the style guide
My changes meet the requirements of this task

Changelist

Splitting up sprint 3 into multiple PRs for each exercise.

Questions

Ask any questions you have for your reviewer.

Start a review

See more pull requests

Please feel comfortable and welcome to pray at this time if this is part of your religion.

If you are breastfeeding and would like a private space, please let us know.

Learning Objectives

Resolve blockers in your coursework
Express and resolve problems effectively by writing tickets and asking questions
Give and receive code review
Develop your personal portfolio
Pair programme
Evaluate your progress with peers and mentors

What are we doing now?

You’re going to use this time to work through coursework. Your cohort will collectively self-organise to work through the coursework together in your own way. Sort yourselves into groups that work for you.

Use this time wisely

You will have study time in almost every class day. Don’t waste it. Use it to:

work through the coursework
ask questions and get unblocked
give and receive code review
work on your portfolio
develop your own projects

🕹️Retro (20 minutes)

A retro is a chance to reflect. You can do this on RetroTool (create a free anonymous retro and share the link with the class) or on sticky notes on a wall.

Set a timer for 5 minutes. There’s one on the RetroTool too.
Write down as many things as you can think of that you’d like to start, stop, and continue doing next sprint.
Write one point per note and keep it short.
When the timer goes off, one person should set a timer for 1 minute and group the notes into themes.
Next, set a timer for 2 minutes and all vote on the most important themes by adding a dot or a +1 to the note.
Finally, set a timer for 8 minutes and all discuss the top three themes.