Sheena
My early career saw me working as a software engineer and technical leader across multiple startups. But it was my passion for education that led me to devote the last 5+ years to re-imagining how we teach people to code professionally.
Over the last half decade I have had the opportunity to work in the Non-profit space and build alternative education systems from the ground up. Along the way I have learned a lot about how to teach well, how to build organisational systems that teach well, and how traditional education systems fall short.
I lead the Guild of Educators, a community I founded to empower tech educators through shared resources, support, and evidence-based teaching practices. Additionally, I run Prelude, where I provide rigorous technical training, as well as consultation, and coaching for technical educators, and organisations with education functions (for example grad programs and similar).
I also founded Prelude.tech where I run advanced Python and "soft skills" training.
Session
Once upon a time, if you wanted to build a modern web experience using a Python based web framework, an obvious choice was to expose a bunch of APIs and build your frontend in something else entirely (eg React).
Times have changed.
Tools like HTMX and AlpineJS have made HTML great again.
This talk is a demonstration and explanation of the power of these tools.
