4 Coffee and Coding
4.1 About Coffee and Coding
The aim of the MoJ Coffee and Coding presentations is to nurture, enable and encourage a vibrant, supportive and inclusive coding community at MoJ. Coffee & Coding provides a regular opportunity for people within MoJ who are interested in coding to:
- Share skills and knowledge
- Showcase their work and projects
- Provide advice and guidance to each other
- Network and get to know each other
Code can be shared from any language — whether R, Python, SQL, or other more specialised languages.
The format is generally 30–40 minutes for a presentation, followed by time for questions. The presentations usually take the form of a demonstration of a tool or technique and/or a show and tell of work done within the department using these methods.
4.2 Recorded presentations
Where possible, Coffee and Coding presentations are recorded to allow people to catch up on talks they may have missed and to provide a useful training resource for colleagues.
These recordings are available on the Coffee and Coding Microsoft Stream Channel. We regularly update the access list, but if you cannot access the videos please contact the Coffee and Coding mailbox.
4.2.1 Some useful talks
If you are new to coding in MoJ, you might find the following recorded talks useful:-
The full catalogue of recorded talks can be found here.
4.3 Code repositories
You can find code examples to go along with past Coffee and Coding presentations in our private repo (only accessible by members of the MoJ Analytical Services GitHub organisation).
4.4 Get involved!
We are always looking for new presentations. If you have an idea for a talk you would like to give, or if you want to showcase a coding project you have been working on, please contact the Coffee and Coding mailbox.
If you have feedback or suggestions for the Coffee and Coding team, we would love to hear from you. You can respond to our open feedback form here.