Closing Keynote
summary
A community-building experiment turns into concrete results: a weekly CodeNewbie Twitter chat reaches its 208th session after 207 Twitter chats, a Base.cs blog series teaches one CS topic a week for a year and spawns a podcast that scores 100,000+ downloads in season one; a bootcamp cost cited as $11,000 bootcamp cost motivates a low‑cost alternative, hand‑drawn outreach and hand-drawn postcards build loyalty, and a technical livestream and 168 podcast episodes prove the formats work to teach fundamentals and surface unseen learners.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Start
- 1:392 years ago
- 2:53job interview
- 10:41community
- 12:443 rules
- 18:14intentional
- 18:25two paths, same place
- 18:35everyone else
- 25:58lived experiences
- 27:23what do you think?
- 28:13true safe spaces
- 29:06shine a light
- 29:18lend that power
- 29:40LENDING PRIVILEGE
- 32:16a proof of nonexistence
- 32:37I wasn't alone
- 34:18The End
