Kids That Code Turing School of Software and Design with Air Force Veteran George Hudson

Episode 128: George Hudson is a former United States Air Force sergeant turned software programmer. The military taught George leadership, organizational skills, and the importance of continuous professional training. He made the switch to computer programming to spend more time with his family and open the door for more opportunity. George launched Kids Who Code at the Turing School of Software and Design in 2015.

– Kids that code

– Teach for America Veterans

– Scratch language my MIT to teach code

– Ruby Language

– We teach Agile Courses to produce the MVP

– The waterfall approach

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Being a good software developer does not prepare you to teach development. The Turing staff blends computer programming experience with years of classroom instruction. No other team can match our depth of expertise and on-the-ground instructional experience.

OUR TEAM

• Is skilled in education pedagogy with over 30 years of aggregate classroom experience.
• Builds on lessons learned from creating both Hungry Academy and gSchool.
• Trains professional development teams at top technology companies like LivingSocial, Boeing, Accenture, and Sony Playstation.
• Contributes to the community, presenting at and helping organize RubyConf, RailsConf, JSConf and dozens of smaller conferences.
• Is committed to making our program inviting and accessible to a broad range of people, regardless of academic background, professional background, age, race, gender, gender identification or sexual orientation.

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