Sung Choi

Rising Codementor

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ABOUT ME

Expert in teaching and mentoring students of diverse backgrounds

I've spent nearly 50 hours TAing for Girl Develop It and will be teaching my own workshops soon. I spent the better part of the last three years as a technical cofounder of a startup building a real-time communications platform to make coders happy and productive. I am a Ruby/Rails, JS/Node, HTML/CSS native, with a solid foundation in CS fundamentals. I'm also fluent in three spoken languages and am working on my fourth and fifth. I delight in mastering new skills and treasure craftsmanship, artistry, knowledge and wonder.

Learning to code should be rewarding. My job is to make sure you're never stuck for too long or worse give up because you're frustrated. Like learning any second language learning to code takes time and patience, but there's no reason it should ever feel slow or boring. I still remember what it was like to be a beginner and what a difference good mentors made for me.

Just for fun, a riddle: A puppy is climbing up a set of stairs. It can go up one step or two steps at a time. How many different ways can the puppy climb up three steps? Five steps? Ten? What pattern does this follow?

English

Pacific Time (US & Canada) (-08:00)

Joined April 2015

EXPERTISE

Ruby

3 years experience

Ruby and Javascript are my first languages. I use Ruby with and without rails to build web applications, command line applications, and m...

Ruby and Javascript are my first languages. I use Ruby with and without rails to build web applications, command line applications, and more recently data structures and algorithms libraries. "Ruby is designed to make programmers happy" ~ Yukihiro Matsumoto

JavaScript

3 years experience

Javascript along with Ruby is my first language. It is also the language that I've used the most in my professional work, both on the fro...

Javascript along with Ruby is my first language. It is also the language that I've used the most in my professional work, both on the front and back-end. If you're a beginner Javascript might look scarier than most on the outside, but it's quite beautiful once you get to know it. Also, it's the only language that can play on both the front and back courts.

Ruby on Rails

3 years experience

Rails is my framework of choice for rapid prototyping. It is also a great for teaching web development.

Node.js

3 years experience

HTML/CSS

3 years experience

Teaching

2 years experience

I have TAed nearly 50 hours for Girl Develop It just within the last three months. I have also independently taught and co-taught eleme...

I have TAed nearly 50 hours for Girl Develop It just within the last three months. I have also independently taught and co-taught elementary school ESL for over 350 hours along with over 100 hours tutoring and volunteer teaching.

Web Development

3 years experience

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