There’s never been a better time for making: anywhere in the world, anyone with a laptop and an internet connection can learn to make an app. Building things has never been so globally democratized.

The goal of Happy Hacking Space is to help you become a hacker. We want a space at every place where people are making interesting things with code, every week. Schools or institutions don’t provide that, so we’re creating it in every place to make building things accessible to everyone.

Most coding classes teach you programming concepts instead of how to write real code—it’s like trying to learn carpentry without any wood. So at Happy Hacking Space, you learn to code entirely through building things. You start with no experience and build and ship a project every meeting.

Just as the best carpenters didn’t learn in the classroom, neither did the best programmers. Through our workshops, you’ll be walked through building projects. Starting out, you won’t understand how the code works, but you’ll build understanding as you go. You’ll get stuck along the way, but we’re here to help.

Happy Hacking Space gives you a community of thousands of other makers to talk to. We’re artists, writers, engineers, tinkerers, campers, filmmakers, volunteers. We make things. We help one another. We have fun. Join us.