Trial Lesson: Coding and Game Development

I studied Statistics and Computer Science at Harvard University before working at Uber and Square as a software engineer for over 4 years. Last year, I shifted my focus to teaching because I wanted to help kids develop the thinking skills and confidence that I wish I’d had sooner.

I can still clearly remember taking my first computer science class and feeling convinced that it was too hard for me. At 18, I was pretty good at carrying out formulaic solutions, but I had almost no experience actually generating them. So when I encountered more open-ended problems in computer science, I found them extremely intimidating and discouraging.

Systematically approaching and deconstructing hard problems makes them much less stressful and more interesting, but this process is very different from what’s typically taught in school. Eventually, I developed this skill and applied it to the classes (and later, a career) that I’d once thought were too hard for me. But I really wish I’d started that process sooner. 

My classes will introduce kids to coding, logic, and problem-solving. Because the best learning happens when the topic is fun and usable, students will apply these concepts to a game that they get to design, plan, and build.