18th CKY issue
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Prior to the workshop, I was rather comfortable with creating custom<br />
bots, websites and general programming. When I was being invited to be<br />
one of the student trainers of this workshop, I initially thought it would be<br />
rather simple and effortless to introduce others to coding. However,<br />
during the planning phase of the workshop, I realised that I was lacking<br />
skills to teach others and being able to carefully devise the lesson plan.<br />
Although I have been increasingly frustrated with having to scrap multiple<br />
ideas, the constant refinement is certainty worth the effort if it makes the<br />
concepts clearer for them to understand. Despite my trembling voice and<br />
technical <strong>issue</strong>s at the start, being able to observe their smiles and the<br />
satisfaction of them understanding the activity gave a strong boost to my<br />
confidence and motivation - to teach them in the most intuitive way.<br />
During the post-evaluation, learning that most of the participants would<br />
like to further extend their pathway in programming gave me a massive<br />
sense of fulfilment. All in all, this course was a worthwhile opportunity for<br />
me to acknowledge that, being a successful programmer does not only<br />
depend on your technical skill set, but being able to deliver and spread<br />
the art of code is arguably even more important.<br />
Abraham Cheung 11B<br />
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