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 "Python"
The Value in Disrupting Yourself: Apprentice at a Startup!
March 26, 2013 – 7:00 am
‘Disrupt’ is a word that gets thrown around often in entrepreneurial and tech startup communities. But in order to disrupt an industry or market, you have to first disrupt yourself. By Jasmine Gao (Data Strategist, Bitly & Fellow, Enstitute) “You always have to do something that puts you in a zone you don’t know. Someone [...]
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 [...]
Sponsored: Python in Finance (April 5 in NYC)
March 11, 2013 – 9:24 am
Sponsored by: Fountainhead is a Big Data and Big Compute company that specializes in HPC & GPU for financial services and insurance. This Fountainhead event is hosted by Bank of America Merrill Lynch. If you are interested in programming in finance and Big Data, you will not want to miss out on this fun and [...]
The Wonderful Quest Of A New Programmer
February 20, 2013 – 9:00 am
I started with Codecademy’s Code Year track and have been learning programming progressively ever since. It took me months to start and almost one year to get into the habit of coding frequently. By Dilys Sun (Student, Codecademy) Congratulations on learning how to code! Chances are you have already envisioned how the coding knowledge may [...]
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 [...]
Hacker School Alum Answers 5 Questions About Applying
January 1, 2013 – 7:00 am
Apply early and do your best on the application, but do not agonize over it. Also please don’t wait until the start of Hacker School to start building. Start now. If you want to go to Hacker School, just remember – keep building. By Jane Wang (Hacker, Etsy) I have received questions about Hacker School [...]
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. [...]
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% [...]
From “n00b” To Engineer In One Year
October 3, 2012 – 8:00 am
I am joining Red Hat as a Associate Software Engineer. By Lynn Root (Founder, PyLadies San Francisco) It is my great pleasure (and squee!) to share with my friends, family, PyLadies, Twitter nerds, Women Who Code’rs, DevChixen, Systers, and everyone else that I can now say: I am an Engineer. Yes, the same person that [...]
