Passion for
programming and sharing knowledge – be a part of great community and challenge yourself
Microsoft Student Partner is not just a title. It is an attitude and passion about sharing knowledge with
others in a local community. You can build your
visibility, improve public speeches and show others that it is really great to
help others!
In this post I would like to share my experience connected with events
where I had a chance to show how easy building Universal Windows 10 Apps is and
how fast you can learn C# language. This article will also include information
about events connected with people passionate about programming and new
technologies.
Girlz Camp –
especially for girls who want to learn how to code.
Each year
Microsoft Student Partners are involved in the Girlz Camp event – one of the
biggest programming workshops for women in my country organized by Microsoft.
This year it was the third edition with
a lot of girls, twelve speakers and eight paths connected with creating apps.
.NET Groups from different regions in
my country consist of many smart girls who create amazing things. Who said that
only men can be programmers? That is why this event is dedicated only to female
programmers.
During the event you can feel passion
and involvement from each side. Everyone helps each other and at the end
participants have knowledge how to use different technologies like Azure,
Universal Windows Platform or ASP .NET. Microsoft Student Partners form
different regions that run these paths – I was responsible for UWP workshops.
Such an event is also an opportunity
to meet other MSPs, exchange experiences, and talk about .NET Groups in the
different regions of the country.
This is a chance
to meet completely new people and to challenge yourself. Events can be exhausting
but that is why we love them, don’t we? At the end of the day all participants
and organizers meet in a pub to celebrate the event – of course finished with
success!
Geek Girls
Carrots – workshops connected with C# language and creating Universal Windows
10 Apps – not only for girls J
Being a Microsoft Student Partner is a great opportunity to share
passion and knowledge during many different workshops. One of them was
organized by the Geek Girls Carrots community. The name can indicate that
events are dedicated only to women – but that is not true at all.
During my workshops there was also a man interested in how to create the
first Universal Windows 10 App and nobody had a problem with that. It was an amazing
experience because everyone was truly involved in it. It was also a big
challenge for me because, as you know, running workshops for people that you
have never seen before can be embarrassing. We have started from the introduction
to C# language programming. After that, we have created a blank Universal
Windows 10 App. At the end we created a simple application for the Desktop and
Mobile devices, which can save your notes.
Not only can workshops can improve skills of all the participants,
but also they encourage them to read articles, do coding and at the end
automatically you learn something new.
One of the most important thing is to keep contact with people and help
them. Being a programmer is challenging but teaching others how to do it is
even more. This is the reason why it is so important for you to start being
active in the community.
Challenge
yourself everyday
Remember – only with true passion you are able to do great things! You
have a chance to improve your skills connected with public speeches, to learn
how to cope with stress and of course a great occasion to build your
visibility! You can meet many interesting people and keep contact with them in
the future.
QUESTIONS:
1) Do you have passion? Please share it with us in
comments.
2) Have you ever tried public speaking?
3) Are you familiar with programming (if yes, please
share more information).
Thank you for this article and for sharing with us your experience. It is great that such events are organized for girls and they can learn programming. I gladly take part in such event. Could You tell me when will be the next edition of this workshops?
ReplyDeleteHi Klaudia,
DeleteThank you, I am happy that you enjoy the article. This types of events are organized in a different time. I do not have informaton yet when the next event is planned.
It's great that you do this with passion. Everyone should have something like that to improve themself.
ReplyDelete1) Do you have passion? Please share it with us in comments.
I have a passion, it's filmmaking and I'm trying to improve myself in it and learn a lot in work from people with bigger experience.
2) Have you ever tried public speaking?
Sure, but only in small groups of people.
3) Are you familiar with programming (if yes, please share more information).
I'm not, that's not my interest.
Hi Anna,
DeleteThank you! I totally agree with you.
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ReplyDeleteDaniel , I admire you for such a great commitment to 100 % of your passion. I so wanted to , but I do not have one particular passion , which could completely dedicate ... maybe I'm a bit lazy .
ReplyDelete1 ) Do you have passion ? Please share it with us in comments .
I have a lot of passion , one of them is building silhouette in the gym , being fit and maintaining a healthy life.
I also love make-up , hair and body care . I love to test new products and share your opinion with friends.
The third of my passions is photography and travel. I hope that , if possible, once again I will be able to fly to distant Asia , because Asian culture and Buddhism completely fascinated me .
2 ) Have you ever tried speaking in public ?
Yes, but not like this . Very stressed by my public speaking .
3 ) Are you familiar with programming (if so, please share more information ) .
I know java at a very basic level .
Hello Sylwia,
DeleteThank you for sharing information with us!:)
1) Do you have passion? Please share it with us in comments.
ReplyDeleteOne of my passions is cars, and motorcycles. Basically everything that has an engile will interest me in some way.
2) Have you ever tried public speaking?
I have and i quite liked it. I don't have alot of experiance with it and I would like to gain some more.
3) Are you familiar with programming (if yes, please share more information).
I am, not as a proffesional but I delop my own apps and I try to get better at it.
My passion is design, skateboarding, and dance. I think, I try to search an inspiration of my environment.
ReplyDeleteI try few times, and I like that. Especially when I fell that I good prepare material to present.
I want to know better a diffrents codes. I am working in creative agency, and I create a lot of websites graphic. At 2nd year of PJATK, I was at short course of html5- but know I remberer only powers of this code. I know a flash code- action srcipt 2 and action script 3, but now this is past of programming.
1) Do you have passion? Please share it with us in comments.
ReplyDeleteTraveling, history and Rock'n'Roll (concerts :)).
2) Have you ever tried public speaking?
Yes, but I hate it... and that's why I will try it again and again to improve my skills. It could be useful in my career.
3) Are you familiar with programming (if yes, please share more information).
Yes, especially in database context (PL/SQL). I like it, and I'm looking for an opportunity to get Oracle certificates in the nearest future.
1) Do you have passion? Please share it with us in comments.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's hard to say that playing board games or snowboarding is a passion but I them so much that I would.
2) Have you ever tried public speaking?
Yes, of course. I've been the master of the inauguration ceremony at the Gdansk PJATK three times. Year after year this event was less stresful for me.
3) Are you familiar with programming (if yes, please share more information).
Yes, I'am. This is what I do on a daily bases, but I wouldn't call myself an expert by no means. Currently I'm learning the Spring framework and creating web applications in general.
1) Do you have passion? Please share it with us in comments.
ReplyDeleteYes, my passion is XV century reenacment. I love atmosphere, for example, of Grunwald :)
2) Have you ever tried public speaking?
Yes, I have tried, but I really don’t like it.
3) Are you familiar with programming (if yes, please share more information).
Yes, I programmed in C, C++, C#, Java and Python – but only for my university classes purpose (I’m not really good at it)
1) Do you have passion? Please share it with us in comments.
ReplyDeleteI made presentation about my passion -> boardgames :) But I also love football. When I was younger I played all the time, but nowadays I'm only watching it on TV.
2) Have you ever tried public speaking?
Yep, but for small group. When I'm talking about things that I'm fascinated in, or have knowledge of I'm not even stressed.
3) Are you familiar with programming (if yes, please share more information).
I work in programming. I'm fullstack developer. I'm using JavaScript, PHP and MySQL as database.
1) Do you have passion? Please share it with us in comments.
ReplyDeleteI haven't any passion but I admire people whose give back all over each other to survey his passion.
2) Have you ever tried public speaking?
Of course. Few years ago I worked in team whose do Event in drogery in acrose Poland. W was person whose recommend a lot of products by microfone and big loudspeaker. Now sometimes I ride on open new shop and I'm doing the same thing.
3) Are you familiar with programming (if yes, please share more information).
Yes, I programmed when I must but i don't like it. I prefer administration or things related with network or databases.
1) Do you have passion? Please share it with us in comments.
ReplyDeleteI wish i had a true passion, but i don't. I really like to draw but I don't really know of i could call it my passion.
2) Have you ever tried public speaking?
I haven't trie public speaking, because I'm extremely shy, and I know it would be a very big failure for me.
3) Are you familiar with programming (if yes, please share more information).
I know that something like programming exists, and thats about all my knowledge about the subject of Your presentation :)
1) Do you have passion? Please share it with us in comments.
ReplyDeleteMine is speedball, a variation of paintball. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrdrXqJczTk
2) Have you ever tried public speaking?
Yeah, but i would have to work on it if I were to speak publicly more often :P
3) Are you familiar with programming (if yes, please share more information).
I am, but more of front-end. Backend programming is boring for me (sorry)
1) Do you have passion? Please share it with us in comments.
ReplyDeleteI really love football (actually only watching and supporting, but earlier I also have liked to kick the ball). My second passion are travelling. Exploring new places are unforgettable.
2) Have you ever tried public speaking?
Yes, but only for small group of people and long, long time ago.
3) Are you familiar with programming (if yes, please share more information).
Yes, I'm familiar with Android.
1. My passion is reading. I've always read a lot, but last year I finally decided to buy a Kindle Reader. I must admit it was one of the best purchases of my life. Reading hasn't been easier and what's great about ebooks it's that Polish online bookstore have sales all the time.
ReplyDelete2. Yes, I have. It was in secondary school. We had an acting performance and I forgot my lines. I said "Cholera" quite loudly and left the scene.
3. Yes, I am. Mostly PL/SQL and a little bit of Python.
Hello Konrad,
DeleteWow! Situation when you forgot your lines sounds serious!
I hope that it was not your last event and you did not give up. :)
Sharing experience and knowledge is one of the most amazing things in, I’d say, programmers community. But as a girl and also a developer I would never go to workshops prepared specially for females. Not because they are poorly organized or something like that. Probably they are well prepared by involved people like you. But I just can’t get rid of the feeling that whenever you say „workshops for girls” to me it sounds like „special meetings for females who want to learn something but they are too dumb to attend regular events with, let’s face it, mainly man community”. Maybe it’s just me but I don’t need some kind of special events. I have no problem with going to the workshop and learning how to code my first universal application for Windows 10 but I would feel offended if someone told me to go to a meeting for girls.
ReplyDeleteRegarding to making universal apps for Windows 10, can you tell me how much is it popular how popular it is? How easily can you find a job? Few years ago I also was learning C# to make apps for a Windows Phone system and I was convinced by a teacher that this would be the greatest mobile system in the world, better that iOS and Android mixed together. Thanks to me that I changed my mind because now I would be totally unemployed. For many months I was still looking for a Windows Phone mobile dev job but nobody needed such employee. There are no users of this system so there are no clients who wants apps written for that system so companies don't hire such programmers. For me WP is a dead system which will disappear in the next few years. The only hope for Microsoft is this idea of universal apps.
Hi Patrycja,
DeleteThank you for sharing your opinion. Your mind in this topic is interesting and I must admit that I heard similar opinion from a few females. One the most important thing is to position the event and adjust the content properly. I know that there are some events where you can say "please... I am not dumb..." but it really depends on the organizers.
With reference to your question about Windows 10. Please remember that Windows 10 is a platform now. It means that this is not only for Desktop devices or Mobile devices. You can also use it with Xbox or IoT. If you look for a job connected with Windows 10 Mobile programming - yes it can be hard to find because market share for it is really small. But if you know how to create and design Universal Applications on the Desktop devices and tablets - there is an opportunity to find nice job - remember that Windows 10 is running on more than 300 million devices - and Microsoft is trying to move from standard Win32 apps to UWP. This is a good time to start. :)
ReplyDelete1) I do have a passion and it happens to be the quite the same as yours- it's obviously programming :)
2) I've tried it a couple of times on a few conferences. I'm still getting used to it, but I'm starting to like it though.
3) Yes I am, Programming is what I do for a living in my firm
ReplyDelete1) Do you have passion? Please share it with us in comments.
Yes! Music is my biggest passion since i am a kid so i practiced playing many instruments and now i am creating, composing, producing and -ing everything connected with music! :)
2) Have you ever tried public speaking?
Yeah! Many times. It is not so bad at all :)
3) Are you familiar with programming (if yes, please share more information).
It is not quite programming i guess - HTML, CSS3 and a little bit of JavaScript. I am going to learn some Swift for Apple apps soon!
1) Do you have passion? Please share it with us in comments.
ReplyDeleteMy main passion is football. Ever since I can remember I excited any major football event. Until now I play whenever time allows me to.
2) Have you ever tried public speaking?
As I run my business very often I talk about it to a greater group of people, mainly on organized by me events. At the beginning it was difficult but after few speeches it's much easier.
3) Are you familiar with programming (if yes, please share more information).
Yes I'm familiar. I'm programming in PHP, HTML, CSS, Java Script. Maybe not the hardest languages to learn but nowadays really powerfull.