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Meet Christian Howes: Instructor for Hackbright’s Part-Time Prep Course

Christian Howes is an instructor  for Hackbright Academy’s Part-Time Prep Course. Since earning Computer Engineering and Music Performance degrees, Christian has held several software engineering roles. He has contributed to both server and client side development work at a wide range of organizations including large telecom software, ad serving and mobile karaoke. He loves teaching and mentoring people to achieve their fullest potential. Christian is also a percussionist and founder of Little Mission Studio where he teaches percussion.  He firmly believes in the power of drumming to take out the frustrations of coding! 

 

What motivated you to teach at Hackbright Academy?
I have been teaching for years, and I believe that management and team leadership is all teaching.  I wanted to get back into formal teaching of software development, and I love Hackbright’s mission as well as the opportunity to train people that I would want to hire!

What will students learn in the  Part-Time Course course?
In the part time course, students will get an introduction to the world of programming.  We will learn the fundamentals of programming and the syntax of the Python programming language.

Why do you think it’s important to have these skill sets?
Ten times out of nine (yup, I meant ten times out of nine), software does not do what you wanted it to do because the engineer did not understand how the software would be used.  If the only thing students get from this course is to be able to communicate better with other engineers and help us all get software right the first time we will have much better software for much less cost!

I also believe that the type of problem solving that you have to do when programming helps you to look at non-programming problems in a new way.

How is learning at Hackbright different than learning somewhere else?

The part-time course is pretty unique in that it is a twice a week *in-person* course.  You get to interact with instructors live, in real time.  Students also get one on one time with an advisor/mentor throughout the course, and have access to the facility and community of Hackbright every day.

What inspires you?
The success of my students/mentees (whether students or members of teams that I lead) really gets me excited and motivated to help the team achieve great things.

What do you enjoy doing for fun?
Fun things for me include facilitating others to do great things through teaching, and mentoring.  I also am pretty into fitness things like running, biking, and rock climbing.  Performing music is great fun too!

What’s one thing people don’t know about you
I like to say “I grew up on Mars.”…. and it is true.  I grew up in Mars, PA (zip code 16046, fact check it!).  When I return to visit my family on Mars, I fly to Moon (township), and then drive to Mars.  The Pittsburgh International Airport is in Moon township PA. 🙂

Christian will be teaching Hackbright’s upcoming  Part-Time Prep Course. Enrollment deadline for June courses is May 26, Enroll Here

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