Slides from Kwame “Darth” Yamgnane / Gaëtan “Big Air” Juvin's presentation at DockerCon SF 2015
Talk Description: In July 2013, Detroit, symbol of the US industrial era, dropped down to the most important bankruptcy in the US history, estimated at 20 Billion. The same year, Facebook market cap was 100 Billion. 42 is a school, which tries to give an answer to a wonderful challenge: How to move from an education created to give answers and labor to industries, to an education that will create people who are ready to be citizens of the digital world.
Hi, everyone I was thinking on how to introduce myself.
So here is the picture: I m the guy, sometime your friend, actually I don’t why you still like me, but who sent you all the let me google that for you.
First because I was tired of searching on google for people, next because I found it very fun :D
Actually, this thing is the head of the iceberg, because knowledge doesn’t matter anymore now we all have access to it.
Now we can learn everything on google.
So let’s focus on computer programming ? what is it ?
It’s exactly what we said that we are doing to our bosses.
But in reality… the most complicated thing we do is about the complexity of how to sort a deck of card.
Everyone succeed to sort a deck of card.
It’s just about patience and learning the few basic loop condition variable…
When you start coding, you are from a black page (emacs) or vim for the loosers :D
I want to tell a story about a little guy… brazilian guy that have created agar.io.
He is only nineteen years old and don’t have any computer science background
It’s just about creativity, patience and learning the few basic loop condition variable…
A little of help from a little guy
So what is creativity ?
I’m kind of a tech guy so I like binary guy:
Here there is two kind of guys here: people already know the answer and people you don’t know yet sorry I will spoil :D
Do you know how to link all theses dot with only lines and without lifting your pen ?
We have to disrupt how we have been teach to think.
So how do we learn now?
Life is problem, a lot of problem that we don’t know the answer and it’s sad but true but the number 42 is not working for everything.
Everyday we try to solve our problem, but we fail and that where we learn the most: from our mistake.
We need to see ourselves like a big project that we need to improve. And improvement are from our learning.
What are the key to succeed ?
Be passionnate about what you learn.
We manage our students to work something like :
12 hours by day, everyday
We want to create hard worker
It can be fun to say that : we (french guy) are working more than 35 hours by week sometime :p
We are great, maybe awesome for some of us.
But we are limited… in time and skills.
A real skill is management and we need to learn it by experience when we are doing it.
Have the same evaluation is different than have an individual evaluation
Remember the launchpad of Ariane?
Be objective on what you do
It’s easy for us we are used to work with boolean. A project is a boolean. Yes after the debugging part :p
So what is 42 ?
From that, we remove teacher / course / exam / mark / deadline
To focus an people exchange
Open from 18 to 30
Without any school / diploma critera only skills and motivation
Tuition free
We strongly believe that everyone is different so different learners.
and what actually matters is everyone arrive at the end
Now it’s not about knowledge anymore but about values:
Work harder
Adaptability
Perfection : is it working or not ?
Work in team
New way of learning.