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Programming EA and Personal Project 2016 Successfully Ended

Jerry Shan
May 31, 2016
2 min read

From many of my other posts, you may be able to tell that I'm a programmer, and one of the cool activities I did with my knowledge and experience is my own programming club. In my school, after school activities are called EAs (extracurricular activities). From the end of last year, I decided to found a community of people who are interested coding, but have no prior experience and wants to start making some simple apps with their computers. I was fully aware of the terrible amount of time you have to spend to learn a programming language, and I thought I could help students with the same passion as myself to excel by teaching them and providing guidance and advice when they encounter bugs and other errors when coding.

I asked the school for the use of the library after school on every Tuesday, and since then people have turned up to my EA sessions.

Usually, I would expect around 10 people show up. Sometimes I get as many as 20 people, and sometimes as less as 4-5 people as we approach the end of year exams. As you can see, I didn't want a classroom for my club because I wanted people to feel comfortable, not like attending a class.

In class I taught them some basic AppleScript codes, which are very useful for performing small tricks that increase efficiency and productivity, as well as many UI-based programs. Perhaps the most popular app I guided them through making is the Spammer app, which allowed them to spam hundreds of messages quickly to other people with their computers - something that can't be done normally.

Throughout the course of the second semester, I was also busy with my Personal Project, which was about programming and its impacts on programmers. I decided to combine these two events in the same post because I think they're closely related. Here's my 54-page booklet on the topic of programming impacts, including psychological impacts, physical impacts, and societal impacts:

Here is how the exhibition looked like. The entire school's gymnasium was used.

And people were trying different coding challenges using my own little guidebook on AppleScript programming. If they complete a challenge, they can take one of my booklets. (They were expensive so I couldn't afford to give out for free).