I have spent some time making up plans for this business I want to start. Here is the run down.
Get a bunch of kids who have no bearing in life and have had trouble with school. Spend a couple of hrs a day with them, teaching them the basics of software development. I am preparing some short modules that I hope will be fun and they can take and use to get started with the learning process. I call this ‘the sandbox’. It is a time to play around, dabble with some technology and with a bit of luck, and encouragement, catch a bit of the passion that comes with it.

I think the sandbox time will last a few weeks. The people who have got some motivation and are interested will be welcomed back to continue learning with a more in-depth teaching class, but again just a couple of hrs a day. This will consist of more advanced concepts along with exercises to complete and material that encourages them to look for their own answers and develop their own solutions to problems

At the moment I am working on a curriculium for how this will work. The more advanced part of it I think I know what I am doing – that sounds wrong I know. But getting people interested,  passionate and wanting to learn? I am not sure how exactly to go about that! But it should be fun to give it a go :)