Programming Instructor

Kaida M.

Hi, I'm Kaida (she/her)!

I have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

I graduated in 2011 and started my career in the tech industry. After spending about 7 years in industry (I worked at one of the big tech companies in the Seattle area and two mid-sized tech companies) I decided that it was time for a change and since I enjoyed TAing and helping friends understand subjects in our study groups I decided to give teaching a try.

I taught Scratch and HTML at an after-school program for elementary school students around the Seattle area. I quite enjoyed teaching young kids, they were really creative and it was awesome to watch them bring their ideas to life and show their parents what they made. You would probably be surprised by the kinds of things a curious 5th grader can cook up in Scratch!

I taught adults at Ada Developers Academy for about 4 years. We covered a wide variety of things and my role was very tutoring intensive (hence looking to tutor online). When I started we taught Ruby and JavaScript but eventually we replaced Ruby with Python.

For capstones students got to spend 2 to 3 months on a project that utilized a new technology.

I mentored students that decided to use all sorts of technologies that weren't in the curriculum. From doing mobile development to doing some hardware work (mostly with Arduino) and some games development. I was the first to volunteer to help students with new technologies.

While I was tutoring at Ada I covered a variety of topics. I helped students to understand the curriculum more generally and also to help them with identifying issues with their projects. So often just printing out some messages can make a problem apparent! I also helped students understand the more theoretical side of CS for interview prep.

Unfortunately I was caught up in the industry-wide layoffs, we had to downsize and all part time instructors were let go.