What was the last thing you learned that really made you struggle?
- Power boosting women coders and creators
- Women's Coding Collective
- @WeAreWCC
- Implicit bias
- Women in the lead
- Women in numbers
- Importance of web publishing / basic coding skills
- Ubiquity
- In a recent WCC course:
- Graphic design graduate
- Help with web site for husband's restaurant
- Founder of two small businesses
- CPA
- Stay at home mom
- Journalist / Painter
- Adjunct - ESL
- Anthropology
- Clothing design
- Psychologist
- Voice artist
- Pharma data
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Consumption vs. Creation
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More women in tech starts with more girls in tech
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Resources
- Always remember what it was like when you didn't know
- Let the student drive; resist the urge to control of the keyboard or mouse
- Guide with pen + paper
- Metaphors / Visuals
- Instill trial and error
“All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.” -Seth Godin, Poke the Box