Meet the Sydney Programming School team. To put it plain and simple, we’re passionate about what we do and it shows in our work! Together we are a bunch of creative enthusiasts who believe that coding is the language of the future.
We understand that every child is unique, therefore our team of experts has carefully developed a number of tailored kids programming courses that reflect the capabilities of children enrolled. Fostering a culture of collaboration, we believe that the best way to teach kids to code is through creativity, innovation and teamwork. All our staff members are experienced IT professional and each has a current Working With Children Check.
Head of Teaching
Jesse Clark is the Head of Teaching. He designs the majority of courses at Sydney Programming School and also teaches Game Development and Web Development courses. As a former NASA software engineer, Jesses loves to explain the basics of programming using space games, which he builds himself. Jesse also works for UTS as a robotics researcher.
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Director, Co-founder, Coding Teacher
Former Digital Product Manager at News Corp, now Grigory is a Director and a Co-founder of CODE4FUN. Having a Master’s degree in IT and being a father of very techie children, Grigory understands both an importance and a challenge of teaching the basics of Computer Science to kids at a young age. Grigory believes that children only really learn coding when they code their projects themselves. Therefore Grigory, looks after all CODE4FUN coding challenges and teaches coding classes six days a week.
Lead Coding Teacher
Andrew is a graduate game designer from Macquarie University. He is the founder of Australia’s first academic chapter of the International Game Developers Association; the IGDA MQ. With IGDA MQ, Andrew has acted as project lead for games such as Simple Paintball Game, Simple Fighting Game, Ricochet and Labyrinth. The team’s games can be found here: https://igdamq.itch.io/. Specialising in the Unity engine, Andrew is well versed in 3D Modelling, UI Design and Programming.
Lead Coding Teacher
Daniel has been coding games from a very young age, starting in High school using drag and drop platform Game Maker, where he learned the logic of programming.
After High school he moved on to learning C++ and Game development at Hornsby TAFE, and later C# and Game programming at St Leonards TAFE. Daniel frequently attends Sydney Game Jams and mostly enjoys making multiplayer games and game servers using Unity3D.
Lead Coding Teacher
Jonathan has been a computer hobbyist since he was a child. He grew up surrounded by gaming and building computers with his older brother. He started programming in high school and since then it has become a passion of his. Outside of the class room Jonathan volunteers with a youth organisation, running weekly programs and camps during the holidays. He has been involved with education/leadership programs for 4 years. Teaching at CODE4FUN has allowed him to combine both his passions – education and computers.
Lead Coding Teacher
Sean is a passionate game developer with a shared love for programming and art. He studies at University of Technology Sydney and works as a contractor at a studio where he creates commercial virtual reality experiences. During his final high school year, he launched his first title called Greebroll. He has recently launched his second major game on the App and Play Store, Snake Time. Sean has worked with many game development studios including Flat Earth Games, Bandai Namco, AIE and Well Placed Cactus. His hobbies include 3D printing, 3D scanning, and competitively making games in 48 hours. He believes that experimentation is the key to solving any big problem.
Lead Coding Teacher
James is a passionate game developer with 2 years professional industry experience using the Unity game engine. He started coding in High School, using Python and C#, since then he has gone on to co-found the game studio, Tunacorn Studios, where he is the Lead Programmer and Technical Director. He enjoys coding tools to make the development process easier in his spare time.
Coding Teacher / Teacher Assistant
Gleb has been fascinated by programming since high school. Teaching himself the basics of Python, his passion for mathematics and computer science has lead him to study a Data Science degree at UNSW, where he is acquiring skills in programming languages such as C, Python and R. Gleb’s interest in new technology and statistics means that he spends a lot of his free time learning about new methods or regression and classification analysis.
Coding Teacher / Teacher Assistant
Nava is a 3rd year Software Engineering student at UNSW. As a music technology enthusiast, he enjoys practicing what he learns in university by building software for musicians and creatives in general. Outside of university, Nava spends his free time learning music theory, making music and reading philosophy. Nava believes that the key to learning anything well is to fully understand why something works the way that it does and applies this to the way that he teaches.
Coding Teacher Assistant
Kevin has recently graduated from Macquarie University in Games Design and Development. He currently focuses on website and games development, and plans to learn more. Kevin has previously worked on games for the International Game Developers Association (IGDO MQ) such as Simple Paintball Game and Simple Fighting Game as a 3D Modeller and artist. Kevin believes that learning how to program from an early age is one of the major steps in becoming a successful software engineer in the future.
Coding Teacher Assistant
Lead Coding Teacher
Tamar is a 3rd year Engineering / Arts student majoring in mechatronics and philosophy. She is extremely passionate about inspiring and enabling the next generation as change-makers for the future and feels technology is the way to empower them. She volunteered for several years in a youth organisation, planning educational programs and camps and has lots of experience with kids. Through teaching with Code4Fun, she feels she is given the opportunity to help kids reach their potential and explore the fun and exciting world of coding that she is passionate about.
Coding Curriculum Developer
Coding Curriculum Developer
Asma holds Masters in Computer Science and experience in working on different products ranging from financial institutions to sport analytics software. Taking the passion for technology forward, she has taught coding, robotics, app development and renewable energy machines for four years. Currently, she makes use of all of her knowledge and experiences developing exciting curriculums at CODE4FUN.
Coding Curriculum Developer
Uyen Nguyen is a Software Engineer at IRI. She redesigns the system’s architecture to migrate the complex system to the Web. As a former software engineer at HotSchedules, she used to design and build a cloud-based back of house system for hospitality industry. You can learn more about Uyen’s experiences at her LinkedIn account. Uyen also does private online tutoring. For more details please check her website. All CODE4FUN customers get 10% discount on Uyen courses.
Let’s be honest, children these days are more tech-savvy than most of their parents, however there has never really been a physical space in which they can develop their computing capabilities. This is where we come in! CODE4FUN Sydney Programming School have partnered up with a number of schools and venues across Sydney to provide children with a physical space in which they can let their love for computing and technology run wild.
As co-founders of CODE4FUN, our mission is to ensure that every child has an opportunity to learn coding and computer science. We all want the best for our children and as parents we are passionate about creating an environment where our kids can continually grow and develop.
Even though we are all about creativity, innovation and teamwork, we are also about Personality! The team that make up CODE4FUN Sydney Programming School believes that coding is a great way to socialise, network and make friends with similar interests.
Learning how to code has provided our children, and many other children that attend our weekly Coding Courses with a way of processing the world around them, a logical way of thinking, problem solving and cognitive development. We harness their creativity and teach them that there is no such thing as impossible. Programming is a life skill that will allow our students to become the architects of the future.
Coding is a challenging yet rewarding experience. As the digital landscape continues to change so will the way in which we communicate within it. Once you learn how to code the only limit of what is “possible” is your imagination.
Learning how to code will allow the children of this generation to become architects of the future. At Sydney Programming School, we ensure that our children are equipped with the necessary tools to help them build their very own games, apps and interactive stories. Kids start from Scratch to advance to real programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Phaser and Unity3D programming.
Living in a world that is dominated by software, Computational thinking is an important skill that everyone should learn. Sydney’s coding culture is on the rise, so to ensure your child is not left behind the digital age, enrol them into one of our fantastic programming courses and give them a skill for life.
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