The founders of coding school Hackbright Academy explain why they went with an all-female format and how it’s working out for graduates. By Jessica Stillman (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0) Startup fever may be raging like never before, but the number of women graduating from computer science programs is actually falling. Christian Fernandez, co-founder of Hackbright [...]
Posts Tagged "Hackbright Academy"
(Infographic) Ada Lovelace Day Celebrates Women Leaders In Tech
October 16, 2012 – 3:00 am
The goal of Ada Lovelace Day is to create new role models for girls and women in these male-dominated fields by raising the profile of other women in STEM. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Today is Ada Lovelace Day – October 16, 2012 is about blogging and sharing stories of women, from [...]
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% [...]
First Week Learning Python Programming At Hackbright Academy
October 8, 2012 – 10:00 am
“Push yourself, don’t forget to eat, realign your commitments, lean on your classmates for support, Git it now, hackathons are your friends, and networking is not as cheesy as it sounds.” By Margaret Morris (Student, Hackbright Academy) At Hackbright Academy, the 10-week intensive software development program for women, Christian and Charles led Friday morning of [...]
Women On The Verge: Day 1 At Hackbright Academy
October 2, 2012 – 5:22 pm
16 of us filed into an office in San Francisco’s Mission District today – among our ranks were physicists, teachers, mech and electrical engineers, sys admins, women fresh out of college, mothers, MIG welders, professors, biologists. By Margaret Morris (Student, Hackbright Academy) We’re the newest batch of Bene Gesserit Hackbright women, here to learn the [...]
After 10-Week Python Training Program, Women Engineers Receive Job Offers From Silicon Valley Startups
September 7, 2012 – 9:00 am
Hackbright Academy in San Francisco trains women to be developers. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Andree Brazeau moved to San Francisco from Canada and began teaching herself to code. A year later, she still wasn’t able to find a job as a developer, so she applied for Hackbright Academy. The Python training [...]
4 Hacks To Learning To Be A Hacker, “A Python Ate Me!” & More
July 12, 2012 – 7:00 am
Programming is by no means an individual pilgrimage; seeing what others are working on and helping/getting help from others can make learning much more fun and rewarding. By Michelle Sun (Student, Hackbright Academy) It’s the beginning of Hackbright Academy, working on Python. There has been ups and downs, some days (and nights) of pure nightmares, [...]
A Beginner’s Survival Guide For Your First Hackathon
July 11, 2012 – 9:00 am
Done is better than perfect. No matter for learning or winning, aim to finish. By Michelle Sun (Student, Hackbright Academy) Last weekend, I attended my first ever hackathon and with minimal expectation, had a blast out of it and learned loads. My team did not win, nor did most of us slept at the event, [...]
Debugging The Problem Of Women In Tech
June 3, 2012 – 6:00 am
The fact that computer science is ill-suited in preparing new engineers to enter the workforce opened the door for so-called ‘hacker academies’ to pick up the slack. By Christian Fernandez (Co-Organizer, Hackbright Academy) As I had grown into the role of technical lead in an engineering organization, I found that I spent significantly less time [...]
