Stories of pair programming and female bonding told at the Hackbright Girl Geek Dinner last week. By Adelaide Chen (Contributing Writer, Girl Geek Dinners) Hackbright Academy, an accelerated software programming school in San Francisco, is helping to tip the gender balance in the industry one woman at a time. And 16 graduated on Friday as [...]
Posts Tagged "Girl Geek Dinner"
Girl Geek Dinner Debuts 16 Women Engineers In Latest Hackbright Academy Class
December 12, 2012 – 8:00 am
From Individual Contributors To The COO, Women Make An Impact At Salesforce’s Girl Geek Dinner
November 5, 2012 – 10:00 am
Women represent nearly every level of leadership at Salesforce, from business to technical roles, inspiring others to strive towards that goal. By Courtney Mayeda (MBA, UCLA Anderson) Upon entering the expansive One Spear Street, we were greeted by the many smiling faces of Salesforce’s Women in Technology group, sporting their nifty red t-shirts. The space [...]
Where To Find Femgineers (Recruiting/Hiring Women Engineers)
November 1, 2012 – 9:00 am
Sponsor an event for women in tech like Founder Friday or Girl Geek Dinners. Femgineers eat too! By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) My boyfriend, who’s an engineer, and his CEO are part of a prominent Silicon Valley startup that are currently as they say “killing it!” They’ve managed to become pretty successful in [...]
Learning To Program Python: Playing With Dictionaries And Markov Chain Generators
October 15, 2012 – 2:00 pm
I love the challenges of pair programming — knowing when to stop for direction, when to brazenly code on, and when to take breaks. By Annie Chang (Student, Hackbright Academy) Time flies when you’re having fun, and we’re almost 20% done with the Hackbright Academy program. I like to think that my glass is 80% [...]
