PyCon is more than where Donglegate began. This year, PyCon boasted a record number of talks delivered by women. As always, they provided a generous financial aid program promoted by many diversity-minded groups. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) An inclusive developer conference in March for the community using and developing the open-source [...]
Posts Tagged "Hackbright Academy"
What Have I Learned in the First Week of Coding in Python?
March 14, 2013 – 10:00 am
I have spent only one week with Python, but I love it. It’s straight forward with a minimum amount of extra syntax, such as semicolons, curly brackets, etc. By Gulnara Mirzakarimova (Student, Hackbright Academy) So, what have I learned during the first week? To sum it up – everything you need to know to write [...]
Women With Dreams Of Becoming Software Engineers
February 6, 2013 – 6:00 am
Hackbright Academy is an all-female web development class that turns beginner programmers into employable junior software engineers. By Susan Tan (Alumna, Hackbright Academy) As a code challenge for BloomReach, I wrote a program in Python that took in 500,000 lines of input and distributed half a million unique wine bottles to 99,999 people, each with [...]
Negotiating My First Offer As A Female Developer Fresh Out Of Hackbright Academy
January 17, 2013 – 1:18 pm
I remembered what I’d been told – that in this case, most men would just forge on and make a counter offer, so that’s what I should do, and it was not a big deal on the company’s side. By Michelle Glauser (Alumna, Hackbright Academy) Hackbright Career Day was December 4th and graduation was December [...]
2012 In Review: Getting Hands On With Code
January 3, 2013 – 8:00 am
Hackbright Academy helped jumpstart me from a hobbyist to a web developer. By Michelle Sun (Alum, Hackbright Academy) 2012 has been a huge year in terms of personal and professional growth. On the professional front, I progressed significantly in pursuing my passion in products, from defining and building a product from scratch and selling it [...]
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Mentorship
December 16, 2012 – 9:00 am
Mentorship is far too integral to career development to rush. Demystify the mentorship relationship – put in the time to decode this “black box”. By Courtney Mayeda (Client Services Manager, Medallia) While filling up on Chinese food and mingling at Rocket Space, home of numerous up-and-coming startups, attendees learned about the event’s sponsor – Hackbright [...]
Last Day Of Class At Hackbright: The First Day Of Lifelong Learning
December 15, 2012 – 6:00 am
Everyone has learned and supported each other, and I know that just because we graduated doesn’t mean we stop. By Mercedes Coyle (Graduate, Hackbright Academy) It really hasn’t hit me yet that this amazing 10 weeks of collaborative learning, problem solving, sometimes frustration, epiphanies, and bonding with 15 other indescribably fantastic women is coming to [...]
Girl Geek Dinner Debuts 16 Women Engineers In Latest Hackbright Academy Class
December 12, 2012 – 8:00 am
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 [...]
Hackbright Academy Students Develop Mobile App For Android In One Month
December 3, 2012 – 10:05 pm
After four weeks of pair programming full-time together, we are inseparable and finishing each others’ sentences. By Annie Chang & Louise Fox (Students, Hackbright Academy) We shared our passion for dogs and technology by building a website for dogwalkers, inspired by our obsession with our dogs and ensuring proper care while we are away coding. [...]
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 [...]
