Day Four — Hot Water?

For some random reason, Day Four felt somehow exhausting. Not the class, it was good. Just me, after the class. It could be because I decided to move around the class throughout the session to make sure the students were following the lesson and not doing anything else, coupled with the slide preparations and research I ran throughout the night.

Well, it was the usual lessons… I just tried to make it fun and exciting you know? Learning to some people is boring, so I had to improvise with different ideas.

My students are doing ok, for the fact that most of them are just starting to write HTML, we haven’t even done CSS, but yeah, they’re doing just fine. Their progressions are ok and they are trying their best to avoid distractions of any kind, like Music, Games and Chats.

I usually confiscate most students’ devices when caught guilty of breaking my one rule while lessons are active: No Outside Work but what we’re doing.
Some of them have turned new leaves while others are still being naughty 😂

The class was great, and the photographer came in and took photos of the class, and me, the instructor 😁

PHOTOS

Since it was the end of the classes for the week, I decided to motivate my students. That was where the water started boiling. The motivational speech was good. I touched many hearts and minds {I believe 😂}.

If the speech went well, where did hot water come from? Well, Hot Water is just the idea that I set for this article. During my speech, my students calculated my age after a sentence I uttered.

“In 2020, when I was 10 years old, I started learning how to write Javascript”

That was all, that was it. That was the sentence I said during the speech that got heads turning. They quickly calculated my age and told me, and the class. They were shocked, and I was ready to receive the hot water. All I wanted to do was inspire these guys to focus in class and learn wholeheartedly.

And BOOM! They figured out my age already. I’m pretty sure as you read this article, you’d probably do the same. What shocked them the most was because they thought I was within the range of 19–21. As of the time I write this article, I’m not even close to 16 yet 😂

So, I continued speaking about how they have the opportunity to learn from me, because I understand how being a child feels like, so I’m quite confident that I’d be able to pass on the knowledge I acquired on my own and during my course at the KCCA boot camp. Then I looked at my watch and it was already closing time. I already gave them a little homework which was on all we did during the week, and so they left.

Some left with happy faces, some smiling at me, and some still playing games even though it was closing time. Others just kept asking me if the story I told was real or not. I know what I know, and trust me, I don’t like lying. It makes it hard for people to believe you when you’re telling the truth and that’s just how I’ve set my mind. To tell the truth, even though it may hurt.

I’m not coming here to start telling you to always tell the truth, but rather, I’m just narrating how day four of the KCCA Bootcamp — Friday, 16th August, 2024 went.

You’ve reached the end of another article on this series, “Teaching KCCA Kids”. I’m Samuel Urah Yahaya, a developer, and at this moment, a writer. If you liked this article, do follow me and an applause or more would be nice. Your thoughts on it can be expressed in the comments section below. Have a nice week and expect more articles under this series.

I hope this article was nice, and not time-wasting so… I’ll catch you in the next one.

One more photo of me 😂

Additional Links

More about me: https://samy01.netlify.app
Kids Code Club Africa — KCCA: https://www.kidscodeclubafrica.com/
The IDE I work with — Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/