National Coding Week: FutureLearn's coding class for adults (beginners) 

Founded by The Open University in 2012, FutureLearn is a leading social learning platform, enabling online learning through conversation. With over 6.5 million people from over 200 countries across the globe – a community that is continuously growing – it offers free and paid for online courses from world-leading UK and international universities, as well as organisations such as the European Space Agency, the British Council and Cancer Research UK. FutureLearn’s course portfolio covers a wealth of areas to promote lifelong learning for a range of applications including general interest, an introduction to university studies, continuing professional development and fully online postgraduate degrees.

FutureLearn

FutureLearn, the leading social learning platform, is delighted to support National Coding Week’s goal to give adults the opportunity to learn some digital skills with a beginners coding class for adults. 
 
Who should come? 
This evening class is aimed at adults who are complete beginners to coding; no experience is required. With an emphasis on giving  practical coding experience, the session will be focused on getting you to code right there and then with the goal being to produce your own webpage by the end of the two hour session.
 
What to expect? 
Expect a highly interactive session with group and individual work, as well as plenty of coding pros on hand for advice and help on following all steps throughout the two hour session. First, you'll get to see the code behind your favourite websites and understand how that code can be manipulated. Then you'll be introduced to CodePen, shown how to fork a project, and go on to creating your own webpage using HTML and CSS. 
 
Logistics: 
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<LI>Places are free but limited to 40 attendees and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. </LI>
<LI>Arrive: 6pm for a prompt start at 6.30pm and the session will finish by 8.30pm.</LI>
<LI>Please note: you will need to bring your own laptops to the session and sign up to <A HREF="https://codepen.io/" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="CodePen" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">CodePen</A> prior to the evening in order to make the most of the time on the night.</LI>
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For anyone who can’t attend this physical class, FutureLearn offers a range of <A HREF="https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/categories/tech-and-coding-courses?utm_campaign=fl_september_2017&utm_term=natcodingweek&utm_medium=futurelearn_organic_event&utm_source=eventbrite" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">online courses in the tech and coding space</A> from beginner to advanced levels. 
 
Your team for the day includes:
Laura Kirsop is a Senior Product Manager. At FutureLearn she ensures our partners are supported through valuable, usable and scalable products. Prior to being at FutureLearn she ran a charity that taught children aged 9-11 to code and was a STEM specialist primary teacher.
Steve Brewer is a self-taught Software Engineer on the online degrees team at FutureLearn and organiser of West London Coders, a monthly meetup for people interested in learning to code.
Vicky Gray is a Software Engineer in the online degrees team at FutureLearn and also an instructor with Code First: Girls, a social enterprise that aims to help more women build careers in tech and entrepreneurship.
Matt Bee is a self-taught Software Engineer at FutureLearn. Has run many Code Clubs, is a regular tech event speaker, does triathlon and (most rewardingly) is a dad of two.
Jessica Rose is a self-taught technologist with a passion for helping people get into the tech industry. She's founded the Open Code meetup series, co-founded Trans*Code and is helping developers learn as a Technical Manager at FutureLearn.

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