Suncoast Software Skills Meetup

Maybe you’re new to coding. Maybe you’ve mastered a lot of its bits and pieces: loops, branches, functions, objects, and so on. But whether you’ve been programming for a week or a decade, there come times when you get stuck and don’t know how use your coding knowledge to get the result you want.

That’s what the Suncoast Software Skills Meetup is all about. It’s a meetup where we’ll take on a coding task — sometimes easy, sometimes a little trickier — and look at ways to take it on. And we’ll do it in different languages, on different platforms. And we’ll also cover topics that go beyond code, to help you become successful in the software field!

Our mission is to help you make the leap from knowing *how to program* to knowing *how to WRITE programs*. This is a skill you can master, and you do so by learning to think like a coder! In this meetup, we’ll work together toward that goal, and sharpen our collective skills along the way.

We’re going to keep the beginner-friendly focus with this revamped meetup, but don’t let “beginner-friendly” fool you into thinking that it means “simple”! In our “beginner-friendly” classes, we rewrote the classic arcade game “Frogger”, the iPhone version of Google’s Tilt Brush, and a scaled-down version of the IKEA VR app. In 2025, we plan to look at the Go programming language, show you how to write your first C/C++ program, and try programming languages and platforms you might no have considered!

Join us, and sharpen your software skills!