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. [...]
Posts Tagged "Pair Programming"
Get The Tech Job Without The “Chest-Thumping”
October 30, 2012 – 8:00 am
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 [...]
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 [...]
Computer Programmers Learn Tough Lesson In Sharing
September 6, 2012 – 1:21 pm
Pairing is finding fans at technology companies… By Joseph Walker (Writer, Wall Street Journal) Virginia Woolf argued that a woman writer needs a room of her own. In Silicon Valley, some companies are questioning whether software programmers even need their own cubicles. Their method is “pair programming” — where two people share one desk and [...]
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, [...]
Invention And She’s Geeky 2012
February 2, 2012 – 11:00 am
By Anna Billstrom (Developer, Momentus Media) I really want to find this picture of my great-grandfather standing in front of his car, that has a license plate with a big circle cut out of the center. He’s showing off his invention. A way of keeping your car from being stolen. You take the center of [...]
On A Culture Of Constraints In Product Development
December 5, 2011 – 5:15 am
By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) In 4 days, it will be the 1 year anniversary of launching BizeeBee my second startup. When I started BizeeBee, I was determined to put in place engineering principles that I hadn’t been able to at previous companies. I also wanted to avoid a lot of bad practices [...]
Agile Productivity Tips for Entrepreneurs & Developers
July 14, 2011 – 6:00 am
By Samantha John (Engineer, Pivotal Labs) A few months ago, I attended the TechCrunch hackathon in NYC. I expected an intense all-night session where programmers would crank out crazy amounts of code at top speed. As it turned out, my assumptions were far off from reality. Walking around the room there was conspicuously more Redditing [...]
