6:00 AM - 6:30 AM (UTC)

This month in the Code Garden, Renee will help you sow your first seeds in the garden of front-end web development! She'll be talking about how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript come together to build the webpages you know and love! In week 1, we'll look at what exactly "front-end" web development is and what you can do with it (without having a backend at all!). Join us to learn some essential HTML and CSS, and deploy then that to the internet with GitHub Pages. In week 2, we'll take a look at your next essential items in HTML and CSS to give our site structure and flair, as well as see how we can use CSS to create interactive webpages. In week 3, we'll bring JavaScript into the picture, and see how we can bring a whole new level of functionality to our site with scripts and cookies 🍪! In this episode we'll look at what exactly "front-end" web development is and what you can do with it (without having a backend at all!). See how the browser turn some essential HTML and CSS into a webpage you can see, and deploy then that to the internet with GitHub Pages. Additional Resources: https://aka.ms/HTMLbasics https://aka.ms/dvtolsguidechromiumbeginners https://aka.ms/workshoplibarybuildresume Your Speaker: Renee Noble - Regional Cloud Advocate Renee is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. A self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", Renee has worked in sectors across tech, outreach, and education. She's worked in ML and web development in the past, dabbles in embedded tech, and is always keen to learn more! Renee is a passionate women in tech advocate, spending her spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls in tech. She also runs her own business, ConnectEd Code, working to bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers. Beside teaching and tech she loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants.

6:00 AM - 6:30 AM (UTC)

This month in the Code Garden, Renee will help you sow your first seeds in the garden of front-end web development! She'll be talking about how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript come together to build the webpages you know and love! In week 1, we'll look at what exactly "front-end" web development is and what you can do with it (without having a backend at all!). Join us to learn some essential HTML and CSS, and deploy then that to the internet with GitHub Pages. In week 2, we'll take a look at your next essential items in HTML and CSS to give our site structure and flair, as well as see how we can use CSS to create interactive webpages. In week 3, we'll bring JavaScript into the picture, and see how we can bring a whole new level of functionality to our site with scripts and cookies 🍪! In this episode learn more about HTML tags that can be used for grouping and structuring, alongside CSS. Then add interactive elements to your site with CSS hover and other interactive elements. Additional Resources: https://aka.ms/howdoiusecascadingstylesheets https://aka.ms/buildsimplewebsite Your Speaker: Renee Noble - Regional Cloud Advocate Renee is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. A self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", Renee has worked in sectors across tech, outreach, and education. She's worked in ML and web development in the past, dabbles in embedded tech, and is always keen to learn more! Renee is a passionate women in tech advocate, spending her spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls in tech. She also runs her own business, ConnectEd Code, working to bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers. Beside teaching and tech she loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants.

6:00 AM - 6:30 AM (UTC)

This month in the Code Garden, Renee will help you sow your first seeds in the garden of front-end web development! She'll be talking about how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript come together to build the webpages you know and love! In week 1, we'll look at what exactly "front-end" web development is and what you can do with it (without having a backend at all!). Join us to learn some essential HTML and CSS, and deploy then that to the internet with GitHub Pages. In week 2, we'll take a look at your next essential items in HTML and CSS to give our site structure and flair, as well as see how we can use CSS to create interactive webpages. In week 3, we'll bring JavaScript into the picture, and see how we can bring a whole new level of functionality to our site with scripts and cookies 🍪! In this episode we'll learn how JavaScript interacts with our webpage to bring functionality to our site. See how you can trigger scripts with button clicks and more, and save website state with cookies 🍪. Additional Resources: https://aka.ms/webdevelopmentforbeginners Your Speaker: Renee Noble - Regional Cloud Advocate Renee is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. A self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", Renee has worked in sectors across tech, outreach, and education. She's worked in ML and web development in the past, dabbles in embedded tech, and is always keen to learn more! Renee is a passionate women in tech advocate, spending her spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls in tech. She also runs her own business, ConnectEd Code, working to bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers. Beside teaching and tech she loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants.

6:00 AM - 6:30 AM (UTC)

This month in the Code Garden, Renee will show you how to grow your very own Python Flask webserver and deploy a website with Azure Apps service. Week 1: Build a webserver with Python Flask! Create routes and serve HTML templates to make a dynamic web experience. Learn about GET requests, and how to serve up personalised sites. Week 2: Take the Python Flask site we built last week and deploy it on the internet for all to see, with Azure Apps Service. Then make it your own by adding a custom domain. Week 3: Web Servers are more than a way to serve up sites, you can use them to built your own APIs too! Learn how to use POST requests and see how you can return more than just HTML to make a useful service for yourself or others. In this episode we'll go through how to get started with Python Flask to make a simple website. I'll talk about when you need a webserver and why (compared to July's static web page series), and give you the Flask tools you need to create routes, and design HTML templates. You'll also get an understanding of GET requests, and how to process and use information in them when serving back webpages. Chapter Markers 3:22 - Why we need a web server - Learn when GitHub pages or Azure static apps isn’t' enough to create your dynamic site. 8:49 - Today's project demo - See today's Flask ap we'll make - an Acrostic Poem generator 10:04 - Set up our repo - Get ready with a new git repo on GitHub 14:04 - Build a Flask Server - Fast! - Set up your first route in Flask 19:00 - Templates in Flask - Create a template with variables and If statements 26:03 - Query strings - How information is sent in GET requests 33:45 - Adding more routes and for loops for our poem - Add an acrostic poem page that uses a for loop to generate HTML for a list of adjectives. 45:35 - Next week - Deploy your Flask app, next week! Additional Resources: https://aka.ms/pythonintallvscode https://aka.ms/visualstudiocodequickstart https://aka.ms/learnmodulesvscode Your speaker: Renee Noble Renee is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. A self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", Renee has worked in sectors across tech, outreach, and education. She's worked in ML and web development in the past, dabbles in embedded tech, and is always keen to learn more! Renee is a passionate woman in tech advocate, spending her spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls in tech. She also runs her own business, ConnectEd Code, working to bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers. Beside teaching and tech she loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants.

6:00 AM - 6:30 AM (UTC)

This month in the Code Garden, Renee will show you how to grow your very own Python Flask webserver and deploy a website with Azure Apps service. Week 1: Build a webserver with Python Flask! Create routes and serve HTML templates to make a dynamic web experience. Learn about GET requests, and how to serve up personalised sites. Week 2: Take the Python Flask site we built last week and deploy it on the internet for all to see, with Azure Apps Service. Then make it your own by adding a custom domain. Week 3: Web Servers are more than a way to serve up sites, you can use them to built your own APIs too! Learn how to use POST requests and see how you can return more than just HTML to make a useful service for yourself or others. In episode 2 of the series we'll take the Python Flask webserver we built in episode 1 and deploy that to the web with GitHub and Azure Apps Service. See how to set up your site to auto-deploy, and even add a custom domain to it! Additional Resources: https://aka.ms/Azureserviceapp https://aka.ms/gittingstartedyoutube https://aka.ms/learnmodulesintrotogithub https://aka.ms/GithubRepoCodeGardenAug Chapter Markers: 2:22 In today's session 3:25 Recap 4:41 Why use cloud hosting 9:11 Putting your code on GitHub 11:22 Setting up Azure App Service with GitHub 17:10 Custom Domains with Azure Domain Service 20:33 Setting external custom domains 30:53 Configure your DNS records 32:49 How to secure your stie with SSL 37:01 Back to setting up our custom domain- time to activate 38:04 Addign SSL certificate in Azure 41:22 Learning resources 42:29 next week Your speaker: Renee Noble Renee is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. A self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", Renee has worked in sectors across tech, outreach, and education. She's worked in ML and web development in the past, dabbles in embedded tech, and is always keen to learn more! Renee is a passionate woman in tech advocate, spending her spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls in tech. She also runs her own business, ConnectEd Code, working to bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers. Beside teaching and tech she loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants.

6:00 AM - 6:30 AM (UTC)

This month in the Code Garden, Renee will show you how to grow your very own Python Flask webserver and deploy a website with Azure Apps service. Week 1: Build a webserver with Python Flask! Create routes and serve HTML templates to make a dynamic web experience. Learn about GET requests, and how to serve up personalised sites. Week 2: Take the Python Flask site we built last week and deploy it on the internet for all to see, with Azure Apps Service. Then make it your own by adding a custom domain. Week 3: Web Servers are more than a way to serve up sites, you can use them to built your own APIs too! Learn how to use POST requests and see how you can return more than just HTML to make a useful service for yourself or others. In episode 2 of the series we'll take the Python Flask webserver we built in episode 1 and deploy that to the web with GitHub and Azure Apps Service. See how to set up your site to auto-deploy, and even add a custom domain to it! Additional Resources: https://aka.ms/Azureserviceapp https://aka.ms/gittingstartedyoutube https://aka.ms/learnmodulesintrotogithub https://aka.ms/GithubRepoCodeGardenAug Your speaker: Renee Noble Renee is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. A self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", Renee has worked in sectors across tech, outreach, and education. She's worked in ML and web development in the past, dabbles in embedded tech, and is always keen to learn more! Renee is a passionate woman in tech advocate, spending her spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls in tech. She also runs her own business, ConnectEd Code, working to bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers. Beside teaching and tech she loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants. Chapter markers 3:33 What is an API 6:18 What we'll build today + recap 9:15 GET verse POST requests 16:06 Coding our API endpoint 22:54 Testing an API with cURL 25:15 Testing an API with Postman 27:22 Testing for and preventing data based errors 31:01 Push our code to our existing Azure app service instance 33:58 Making requests with Python 41:25 Cloud Skills Challenge 47:51 Next month - GitHub pages portfolios

10:30 PM - 11:30 PM (UTC)

In episode 1 we'll cover the basics of how to get your portfolio site set up and make it go live with GitHub pages! Will give you the steps you need to get from getting start with GitHub, to portfolio structure, to making it go live! Additional Resources: https://aka.ms/CloudskillschallengeforSept1 https://aka.ms/gittingstartedvideo1 https://aka.ms/GithubinthecodegardenSept Your Speakers Renee Noble Renee is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. A self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", Renee has worked in sectors across tech, outreach, and education. She's worked in ML and web development in the past, dabbles in embedded tech, and is always keen to learn more! Renee is a passionate women in tech advocate, spending her spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls in tech. She also runs her own business, ConnectEd Code, working to bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers. Beside teaching and tech she loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants. Guest Speaker Amanda Hogan Amanda came to a realization that she wanted something more out of life while working at Microsoft and took the opportunity to retrain as a teacher and hasn't regretted it for a second. Since starting in teaching she has taught all senior years in the computing subjects. She has also had the unique opportunity to gain insight into the art and science of teaching by assisting fabulous teachers in most faculties in schools to use technology in their classrooms. She has had the opportunity to work with many different aspects of the running of the school as an IT consultant from student leadership to database and web design. She also gets to occasionally play with robots and make computer games and watch students' eyes light up when they do the same. She has a side focus of teacher professional learning through her association with ICT educators of NSW and with her work with the Australian Computing Academy. She should probably get around to writing that textbook. Time Stamps Welcome our Guest Go host 0:29 Why build a portfolfio site 3:03 Today's episode contents 4:22 What is GitHub & GitHub Pages 5:51 Fork our template 9:58 What's in the template - HTML & CSS overview 12:23 Get set up and take a look at what's in the template 17:09 What makes a good portfolio 28:48:00 Adding more projects, pictures, and skill lists 33:18:00 Create a great introduction paragraph 36:25:00 Update your contact info 39:33:00 Go live with GitHub Pages 49:11:00 Next week - Catch the Education Showcase 50:45:00 Deploy it properly this time! 53:09:00 Resources to practice at home 54:07:00 See the site live 56:02:00 In 2 weeks time - episode 2 of making portfolios 56:29:00

6:00 AM - 7:00 AM (UTC)

In episode 1 we'll cover the basics of how to get your portfolio site set up and make it go live with GitHub pages! Will give you the steps you need to get from getting start with GitHub, to portfolio structure, to making it go live! Additional Resources: https://aka.ms/CloudskillschallengeforSept2 https://aka.ms/gittingstartedvideo2 Your Speakers Renee Noble Renee is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. A self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", Renee has worked in sectors across tech, outreach, and education. She's worked in ML and web development in the past, dabbles in embedded tech, and is always keen to learn more! Renee is a passionate women in tech advocate, spending her spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls in tech. She also runs her own business, ConnectEd Code, working to bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers. Beside teaching and tech she loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants. Guest Speaker Amanda Hogan Amanda came to a realization that she wanted something more out of life while working at Microsoft and took the opportunity to retrain as a teacher and hasn't regretted it for a second. Since starting in teaching she has taught all senior years in the computing subjects. She has also had the unique opportunity to gain insight into the art and science of teaching by assisting fabulous teachers in most faculties in schools to use technology in their classrooms. She has had the opportunity to work with many different aspects of the running of the school as an IT consultant from student leadership to database and web design. She also gets to occasionally play with robots and make computer games and watch students' eyes light up when they do the same. She has a side focus of teacher professional learning through her association with ICT educators of NSW and with her work with the Australian Computing Academy. She should probably get around to writing that textbook. Time Stamps Welcome our Guest Go host 0:40 Why build a portfolfio site 2:34 Today's episode contents 3:20 What is GitHub & GitHub Pages 4:37 Fork our template and get set up 8:36 What's in the template - HTML & CSS overview 20:02 What makes a good portfolio 25:29:00 Create a great introduction paragraph 31:07 Update your contact info 35:50:00 Adding more projects, pictures, and skill lists 40:47:00 Go live with GitHub Pages 53:36:00 Next week - Catch the Education Showcase 55:00:00 Deploy it properly this time! 58:41:00 Resources to practice at home 59:39:00 See the site live 1:01:23 In 2 weeks time - episode 2 of making portfolios 1:02:24

10:30 PM - 11:30 PM (UTC)

We'll take our basic website from episode 1 and focus on making it stand out, by giving you tips on the content to include, and how to make it stand out from the crowd with HTML and CSS skills. Additional Resources: https://aka.ms/FundamentalsDevelopmentforAbsoluteBeginners2 Your Speakers Renee Noble Renee is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. A self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", Renee has worked in sectors across tech, outreach, and education. She's worked in ML and web development in the past, dabbles in embedded tech, and is always keen to learn more! Renee is a passionate women in tech advocate, spending her spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls in tech. She also runs her own business, ConnectEd Code, working to bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers. Beside teaching and tech she loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants. Guest Speaker Amanda Hogan Amanda came to a realization that she wanted something more out of life while working at Microsoft and took the opportunity to retrain as a teacher and hasn't regretted it for a second. Since starting in teaching she has taught all senior years in the computing subjects. She has also had the unique opportunity to gain insight into the art and science of teaching by assisting fabulous teachers in most faculties in schools to use technology in their classrooms. She has had the opportunity to work with many different aspects of the running of the school as an IT consultant from student leadership to database and web design. She also gets to occasionally play with robots and make computer games and watch students' eyes light up when they do the same. She has a side focus of teacher professional learning through her association with ICT educators of NSW and with her work with the Australian Computing Academy. She should probably get around to writing that textbook. We'll take our basic website from episode 1 and focus on making it stand out, by giving you tips on the content to include, and how to make it stand out from the crowd with HTML and CSS skills. Additional Resources: https://aka.ms/FundamentalsDevelopmentforAbsoluteBeginners2 Your Speakers Renee Noble Renee is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. A self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", Renee has worked in sectors across tech, outreach, and education. She's worked in ML and web development in the past, dabbles in embedded tech, and is always keen to learn more! Renee is a passionate women in tech advocate, spending her spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls in tech. She also runs her own business, ConnectEd Code, working to bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers. Beside teaching and tech she loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants. Guest Speaker Amanda Hogan Amanda came to a realization that she wanted something more out of life while working at Microsoft and took the opportunity to retrain as a teacher and hasn't regretted it for a second. Since starting in teaching she has taught all senior years in the computing subjects. She has also had the unique opportunity to gain insight into the art and science of teaching by assisting fabulous teachers in most faculties in schools to use technology in their classrooms. She has had the opportunity to work with many different aspects of the running of the school as an IT consultant from student leadership to database and web design. She also gets to occasionally play with robots and make computer games and watch students' eyes light up when they do the same. She has a side focus of teacher professional learning through her association with ICT educators of NSW and with her work with the Australian Computing Academy. She should probably get around to writing that textbook. Time Stamps: Welcome our Guest Go host 0:57 What's in today's episode 2:24 What we did iin the last episode 4:08 Today's tech project preview 9:21 What makes your porfolio stand out 6:38 Make your portfolio responsive for mobile with CSS 11:55 Embedding a video in your portfolio with HTML 22:50 JavaScript and the Document Object Model explained 30:56:00 Add a carousel to your porfolio with JavaScript 36:41:00 Using colours in your portfolio responsibily 55:45:00 Getting fonts easily for your portfolio 57:28:00 Resources to practice at home 58:57:00 Next Month in the Code Garden - Amanda returns! 59:55:00

4:30 AM - 5:30 AM (UTC)

We'll take our basic website from episode 1 and focus on making it stand out, by giving you tips on the content to include, and how to make it stand out from the crowd with HTML and CSS skills. Additional Resources: https://aka.ms/FundamentalsDevelopmentforAbsoluteBeginners2 Your Speakers Renee Noble Renee is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. A self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", Renee has worked in sectors across tech, outreach, and education. She's worked in ML and web development in the past, dabbles in embedded tech, and is always keen to learn more! Renee is a passionate women in tech advocate, spending her spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls in tech. She also runs her own business, ConnectEd Code, working to bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers. Beside teaching and tech she loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants. Guest Speaker Amanda Hogan Amanda came to a realization that she wanted something more out of life while working at Microsoft and took the opportunity to retrain as a teacher and hasn't regretted it for a second. Since starting in teaching she has taught all senior years in the computing subjects. She has also had the unique opportunity to gain insight into the art and science of teaching by assisting fabulous teachers in most faculties in schools to use technology in their classrooms. She has had the opportunity to work with many different aspects of the running of the school as an IT consultant from student leadership to database and web design. She also gets to occasionally play with robots and make computer games and watch students' eyes light up when they do the same. She has a side focus of teacher professional learning through her association with ICT educators of NSW and with her work with the Australian Computing Academy. She should probably get around to writing that textbook. Time Stamps: Welcome our Guest Go host 0:58 What's in today's episode 3:43 What we did iin the last episode 6:16 Today's tech project preview 7:54 What makes your porfolio stand out 10:40 Make your portfolio responsive for mobile with CSS 13:23 Embedding a video in your portfolio with HTML 25:41:00 JavaScript and the Document Object Model explained 30:40:00 Add a carousel to your porfolio with JavaScript 37:43:00 Using colours in your portfolio responsibily 58:58:00 Getting fonts easily for your portfolio 1:01:18 Resources to practice at home 1:02:56 Next Month in the Code Garden - Amanda returns! 1:05:14

9:30 PM - 10:30 PM (UTC)

This month in the Code Garden, Renee is joined by guest co-host Amanda Hogan. A former Microsoftie, turned high school tech teacher, Amanda knows her way around tech, as well as helping her students showcase their dev creations! We show you how you don't need to settle for the default when it comes to your GitHub profile. Renee and Amanda will take you through how to use a custom GitHub profile, use markdown for fast profile edits, and show off their favourite components to help showcase your GitHub highlights! Content level Beginner Who is it aimed at? Beginner coders, uni students, teachers Why should you attend? Add a custom profile to GitHub Learn markdown Learn useful markdown and HTML components Additional resources: https://aka.ms/introtogithubinvisuals https://aka.ms/gittingstartedintro https://aka.ms/GitHubWorkshopLibraryearlyshow Your Host Renee Noble Renee is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. A self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", Renee has worked in sectors across tech, outreach, and education. She's worked in ML and web development in the past, dabbles in embedded tech, and is always keen to learn more! Renee is a passionate women in tech advocate, spending her spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls in tech. She also runs her own business, ConnectEd Code, working to bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers. Beside teaching and tech she loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants. Guest Host Amanda Hogan Amanda came to a realization that she wanted something more out of life while working at Microsoft and took the opportunity to retrain as a teacher and hasn't regretted it for a second. Since starting in teaching she has taught all senior years in the computing subjects. She has also had the unique opportunity to gain insight into the art and science of teaching by assisting fabulous teachers in most faculties in schools to use technology in their classrooms. She has had the opportunity to work with many different aspects of the running of the school as an IT consultant from student leadership to database and web design. She also gets to occasionally play with robots and make computer games and watch students' eyes light up when they do the same. She has a side focus of teacher professional learning through her association with ICT educators of NSW and with her work with the Australian Computing Academy. She should probably get around to writing that textbook.

3:30 AM - 4:30 AM (UTC)

This month in the Code Garden, Renee is joined by guest co-host Amanda Hogan. A former Microsoftie, turned high school tech teacher, Amanda knows her way around tech, as well as helping her students showcase their dev creations! We show you how you don't need to settle for the default when it comes to your GitHub profile. Renee and Amanda will take you through how to use a custom GitHub profile, use markdown for fast profile edits, and show off their favourite components to help showcase your GitHub highlights! Content level Beginner Who is it aimed at? Beginner coders, uni students, teachers Why should you attend? Add a custom profile to GitHub Learn markdown Learn useful markdown and HTML components Additional resources: https://aka.ms/introtogithubvisuals2 https://aka.ms/gittingstartedintro2 https://aka.ms/GitHubWorkshoplibrarylateshow Your Host Renee Noble Renee is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. A self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", Renee has worked in sectors across tech, outreach, and education. She's worked in ML and web development in the past, dabbles in embedded tech, and is always keen to learn more! Renee is a passionate women in tech advocate, spending her spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls in tech. She also runs her own business, ConnectEd Code, working to bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers. Beside teaching and tech she loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants. Guest Host Amanda Hogan Amanda came to a realization that she wanted something more out of life while working at Microsoft and took the opportunity to retrain as a teacher and hasn't regretted it for a second. Since starting in teaching she has taught all senior years in the computing subjects. She has also had the unique opportunity to gain insight into the art and science of teaching by assisting fabulous teachers in most faculties in schools to use technology in their classrooms. She has had the opportunity to work with many different aspects of the running of the school as an IT consultant from student leadership to database and web design. She also gets to occasionally play with robots and make computer games and watch students' eyes light up when they do the same. She has a side focus of teacher professional learning through her association with ICT educators of NSW and with her work with the Australian Computing Academy. She should probably get around to writing that textbook.

10:00 PM - 11:00 PM (UTC)

In the first Open Code Garden of the Month, Renee will be working through the first coding module in our Microsoft Learn module, using Python for cipher cracking! Come along to code alongside her, or to get any other Python questions you have answered! Additional Resources: https://aka.ms/Microsofttraininmodules1 https://aka.ms/Trainingpathpython1 Your speaker Renee Noble is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. A self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", Renee has worked in sectors across tech, outreach, and education. She's worked in ML and web development in the past, dabbles in embedded tech, and is always keen to learn more! Renee is a passionate women in tech advocate, spending her spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls in tech. She also runs her own business, ConnectEd Code, working to bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers. Beside teaching and tech she loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants.

5:00 AM - 6:00 AM (UTC)

In the first Open Code Garden of the Month, Renee will be working through the first coding module in our Microsoft Learn module, using Python for cipher cracking! Come along to code alongside her, or to get any other Python questions you have answered! Additional Resources: https://aka.ms/Microsofttrainingmodule2 https://aka.ms/Trainingpathpython2 Your speaker Renee Noble is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. A self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", Renee has worked in sectors across tech, outreach, and education. She's worked in ML and web development in the past, dabbles in embedded tech, and is always keen to learn more! Renee is a passionate women in tech advocate, spending her spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls in tech. She also runs her own business, ConnectEd Code, working to bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers. Beside teaching and tech she loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants.

10:00 PM - 11:00 PM (UTC)

In the second Open Code Garden of the Month, Renee will be working through the next coding module in our Microsoft Learn module, using Python to create a quiz game! Come along to code alongside her, or to get any other Python questions you have answered! Additional Resources: https://aka.ms/Personailityquiz1 https://aka.ms/Pythonpartnership1 Your Speaker Renee Noble is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. A self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", Renee has worked in sectors across tech, outreach, and education. She's worked in ML and web development in the past, dabbles in embedded tech, and is always keen to learn more! Renee is a passionate women in tech advocate, spending her spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls in tech. She also runs her own business, ConnectEd Code, working to bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers. Beside teaching and tech she loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants.

5:00 AM - 6:00 AM (UTC)

In the second Open Code Garden of the Month, Renee will be working through the next coding module in our Microsoft Learn module, using Python to create a quiz game! Come along to code alongside her, or to get any other Python questions you have answered! Additional Resources: https://aka.ms/Personailityquiz2 https://aka.ms/Pythonpartnership2 Your Speaker Renee Noble is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. A self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", Renee has worked in sectors across tech, outreach, and education. She's worked in ML and web development in the past, dabbles in embedded tech, and is always keen to learn more! Renee is a passionate women in tech advocate, spending her spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls in tech. She also runs her own business, ConnectEd Code, working to bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers. Beside teaching and tech she loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants.

12:00 AM - 1:00 AM (UTC)

This month in the Code Garden, we take on the holiday themed programming challenge, Advent of Code (https://adventofcode.com/) ! Join the sessions to see us use Python to work through problems from the different days of the seasonal competition. Learn our tips and tricks to for getting started, for writing code that will churn out answers fast, and for setting yourself up for success as the competition goes on. Come along to practice your Python, algorithmic programming, or pick up skills that come in handy come your next technical programming job interview! In Episode 1 of Advent of Code Garden, we'll tackle the first 5 problems. We'll provide tips and tricks for how to ease into Advent of Code with these four problems using Python and VS Code, with particularly helpful tips for first time Advent of Coders. Additional Resources: https://aka.ms/AdventofcodeEp1 https://aka.ms/trainingchallengesEp1 Your Speakers Renee Noble enee is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. As an avid learner and educator, she'd love to help you on your learning journey in a fun and friendly way. Join Renee to learn about Python, web dev, and data science, as she shares her knowledge and discoveries from her latest learning explorations. Jack Reichelt Jack is the Chief Technology Officer of ConnectEd Code, where he spends his time building exciting embedded systems, and crafting unique tech learning experiences for schools and communities. Through ConnectEd Code events kids, learn to use code for anything from murder mysteries to building escape rooms, uncovering the power of everything tech can do. Jack's favourite time of the year is the lead up to Christmas, not because of the presents and food, but because of the daily programming challenge that he gets to complete called Advent of Code. Spending many hours on the final problems, Jack finished all 25 days of Advent of Code for the first time in 2021.

12:00 AM - 1:00 AM (UTC)

This month in the Code Garden, we take on the holiday themed programming challenge, Advent of Code (https://adventofcode.com/) ! Join the sessions to see us use Python to work through problems from the different days of the seasonal competition. Learn our tips and tricks to for getting started, for writing code that will churn out answers fast, and for setting yourself up for success as the competition goes on. Come along to practice your Python, algorithmic programming, or pick up skills that come in handy come your next technical programming job interview! In Episode 2 we'll take a look at problems 6-8 of Advent of Code, as the competition difficulty starts to ramp up. We'll talk about some algorithmic essentials that it would be great to learn at this stage of the competition, and about other concepts like multi-dimensional lists, dictionaries, and classes that will become important as the competition goes on. Additional Resources: https://aka.ms/AdventofCodeEp2 https://aka.ms/TrainingchallengesEp2 Your Speakers Renee Noble Renee is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. As an avid learner and educator, she'd love to help you on your learning journey in a fun and friendly way. Join Renee to learn about Python, web dev, and data science, as she shares her knowledge and discoveries from her latest learning explorations. Jack Reichelt: Jack is the Chief Technology Officer of ConnectEd Code, where he spends his time building exciting embedded systems, and crafting unique tech learning experiences for schools and communities. Through ConnectEd Code events kids, learn to use code for anything from murder mysteries to building escape rooms, uncovering the power of everything tech can do. Jack's favourite time of the year is the lead up to Christmas, not because of the presents and food, but because of the daily programming challenge that he gets to complete called Advent of Code. Spending many hours on the final problems, Jack finished all 25 days of Advent of Code for the first time in 2021.

5:00 AM - 6:00 AM (UTC)

On this holiday special episode of In the Code Garden, we'll be taking a look at exciting holiday projects, for adults and kids, alike as we create fun holiday decorations using MakeCode and the BBC micro:bit. Come along to see how you can use LEDs, buttons, and radio signals to create a fun display for a holiday of your choice! Turn what you learn into a fun family or school project with tips from our Co-Host, Helen Kardiosmenos, who will share her experiences as a primary school tech educator. Your Speakers Renee Noble Renee is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. As an avid learner and educator, she'd love to help you on your learning journey in a fun and friendly way. Join Renee to learn about Python, web dev, and data science, as she shares her knowledge and discoveries from her latest learning explorations. Helen Kardiasmenos Helen is a dedicated and passionate learning designer, teacher, and trainer. With many years of experience working in the classroom as a former technology and innovation teacher and leader at schools across Sydney, she's created amazing tech projects with thousands of students. Helen also extends that impact through her work as an academic at Swinburn University, where she gives pre-service and early careers teachers the benefits of her years of experience and research. Her latest research project , "Plugged into Unplugged: Teaching Girls to be Leaders and Coders with Technology," earned her the title of 2020 ICTENSW Leader of the Year award. Helen is a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert and Trainer, along with having skills in many other educational technologies. This unique collection of skills and experience lead to her recently to founding Nano Bites Education and the Marvellous Mrs K.

12:00 AM - 1:00 AM (UTC)

This month in the Code Garden, we take on the holiday themed programming challenge, Advent of Code (https://adventofcode.com/) ! Join the sessions to see us use Python to work through problems from the different days of the seasonal competition. Learn our tips and tricks to for getting started, for writing code that will churn out answers fast, and for setting yourself up for success as the competition goes on. Come along to practice your Python, algorithmic programming, or pick up skills that come in handy come your next technical programming job interview! In Episode 3 we'll take a look discuss some of our methodologies we use when tackling the later, growingly complex problems, in Advent of code. We'll give you some insight into our favourite hacks in solving problems 9-11, that will hopefully set you up for success for the rest of the competition. Additional Resources: https://aka.ms/TrainingchallengesEp3 https://aka.ms/AdventofCodeEp3 Your Speakers Renee Noble Renee is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. As an avid learner and educator, she'd love to help you on your learning journey in a fun and friendly way. Join Renee to learn about Python, web dev, and data science, as she shares her knowledge and discoveries from her latest learning explorations. Jack Reichelt Jack is the Chief Technology Officer of ConnectEd Code, where he spends his time building exciting embedded systems, and crafting unique tech learning experiences for schools and communities. Through ConnectEd Code events kids, learn to use code for anything from murder mysteries to building escape rooms, uncovering the power of everything tech can do. Jack's favourite time of the year is the lead up to Christmas, not because of the presents and food, but because of the daily programming challenge that he gets to complete called Advent of Code. Spending many hours on the final problems, Jack finished all 25 days of Advent of Code for the first time in 2021.

11:00 PM - 12:00 AM (UTC)

This month in the Code Garden you can pick up the basics of using GitHub for version control. Learn the essentials to creating a repo, cloning it, pushing code, and more tips for new Git users. Content level Beginner Who is it aimed at? Up and coming devs, uni students Why should you attend? Learn GitHub Learn Git Learn version control Additional Resources: https://aka.ms/introtogithubMSLearn Your Speaker Renee is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online. As an avid learner and educator, she'd love to help you on your learning journey in a fun and friendly way. Join Renee to learn about Python, web dev, and data science, as she shares her knowledge and discoveries from her latest learning explorations.