Teach Programming in Africa Hi, I'm an engineer in Mechatronics and have been working as a Software Engineer for about 5 years. Lately I have got the desire to go out and teach others and do it in countries where I could make a difference, and I am looking for Africa especially. Do anyone of you have experience from that? Did you go through any organization, government funded projects, schools or similar? Would like to hear your experiences! |
Kenyan culture and programming appeared to be oil and water for a lot of students and some teachers. They are incredibly relational and always run into to friends and family on the way to important meetings. Sometimes forgetting to show up completely because they were hanging out. We called it "Kenya Time". All the clocks ran on Kenyan Time. I had teachers get upset at me because they showed up 4 hours late to a meeting and I wasn't there.
The teachers and students that got the importance of deadlines, methodical approaches, and being on-time excelled and usually came out of the slum with a decent little programming gig.