Bertie - IRL Club Mentor

Passionate about programming languages, enthusiastic about code editors, and happiest when coding or helping others to!

Bertie started programming at 16, and has now been programming for about as long, though he still wishes he'd started 10 years sooner. He's joined The Code Zone to help others not have such regrets, by showing them the joy to be found in writing code.

Over the years Bertie has experienced and been interested in many sides to the subject, from the theoretical to the practical. His favourite thing is making tools for making tools with, though he also loves making games and studying the more abstract.

Bertie spent the few years before joining The Code Zone teaching university students about programming and computer science more generally. He made the switch having realised that much of what they were learning could also be learnt by younger children, who might get even more mileage out of it!