Coding Workshop

To help students in the ComDes program at Texas State with an interest in coding further their marketable skills, I designed and conducted a workshop teaching the SCSS technology to students who had only been exposed to plain CSS. The workshop featured two different sessions—one for beginners and one for advanced students. Students in the CS department were also invited to participate.

All the assets for the event were created using a monospace typeface in the style of CSS code and used images made from punctuation common to CSS. This resulted in an identity that is code-focused, but still playful.

Announcement Poster

The poster was put up around the building and campus to show students how to register for the free workshop, as well as details about the structure of the event. The posters were printed in two colors on a risograph printer using white and pink ink on black paper.

Promotional Assets

The workshop used eventbright for registration and google forms for a short survey after the sessions. These assets were created to brand the event.

Workshop Slides

The workshop was designed to have example code and student interaction, where students would write and test code as we discussed each SCSS feature. Students would work on their own computer or use a computer in the lab, while I would perform a demo line by line. The slides break down the code and allow people to take home the information in the workshop to review later.

Covid Restrictions

had to reevaluate the structure of my workshop after learning that it would have to be held entirely online due to restricted contact from Covid-19. While mostly the attendance of the workshop was affected (about half as many as expected participated), the delivery of the material worked decently through Zoom. I would definitely prefer to have been more directly involved in helping attendees work through the code, rather than delivering the material as a demo.

However, I was prepared to show the code all the way through and answer any questions remotely through screen sharing and repeating steps if needed. I had time to rework the structure of the workshop, but nothing would replace the level of participation of an in-person event.

All in all, the workshop allowed me to get a feel for all that goes into creating an event, promoting it, and carrying it out. I would still like to do the workshop again in a real room when the circumstances permit to see if the workshop feels more engaging and worthwhile for the attendees.