Yesterday was our first day of classes with our new students from the University of San Marcos, and we dove right into CSS/HTML coding and the basics of web design. In the coming weeks we’ll cover advanced HTML, WordPress installation and management, database skills, and many others; Diego Rotalde had the great idea of having them create portfolios for themselves as a first project.

Luckily, we’ll have our former student (and current intern) Christian here to help out teaching – he’s become quite familiar with WordPress and even some more complex PHP coding over the last few months, and will be a lot of help in the classroom.

This time, we’re also encouraging the students to work in our office more, both to encourage peer learning and so that they can ask us questions as they go. With that in mind, we’re having “lab” days between classes, where they can come in and use our computer cluster all day. This is also important because none of our new students have Internet connections from home.

To read more about the program, take a look at Cut&Paste Labs’ website and our online video tutorial repository at cutpastelabs.org

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