Learn about the 6 uncommon things the women at Dev Bootcamp learned in the process of going from no formal programming experience to finding jobs as software developers at top companies in 10 weeks. By Janet Chang (Alumn, Dev Bootcamp) It has been almost three months since the end of my software development training at [...]
Posts Tagged "Railsbridge"
How We Became Software Developers In 10 Weeks (The Rising Femme Elite Of Tech)
March 1, 2013 – 6:00 am
Are You Aspiring To Code? Join The Club, Literally…
June 4, 2012 – 10:00 am
A conference attendee said she didn’t study computer science in school and didn’t know any code a year ago, but is now working as a full-time developer. By Melissa Tinitigan (Founder, Event Digerati) I’ve always been fascinated by technology, and I was hoping to learn more about the booming tech industry in San Francisco by [...]
Doing It Right: Harvey Mudd’s Gender-Balanced Computer Science Program (40% Are Women)
December 22, 2011 – 10:36 am
By Jennifer Lindner (Organizer, RailsBridge & Freelance Open Source Developer) What is Harvey Mudd doing so right, you ask? Well, we’ll tell you: Since 2006, the percentage of female computer science majors has more than tripled, to about 40%. This is because of revolutionary changes in the program designed to build confidence during the early [...]
Ruby: More Than A Fun Programming Language
December 5, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Elaine Tsai (Organizer, Hack Nights for Beginners) The Ruby programming community in San Francisco is phenomenal. While there may be a shortage of Ruby programmers in the Bay Area, there is no shortage of people interested and excited about the opportunity to learn. I attended my first Ruby on Rails event a couple of [...]
The Impact of Twitter on RailsBridge (Learning Ruby on Rails)
November 8, 2011 – 7:10 am
By Jennifer Lindner (Organizer, RailsBridge & Freelance Open Source Developer) Twitter not only helps facilitate organizing across the world, they invest in their local community by hosting RailsBridge workshops in their San Francisco office. We’re doing it. We’re teaching each other technology. Not how to use it: how to build it. We’re teaching and learning [...]
Female Founders to Follow (Women 2.0 Startup Weekend Mentors)
November 4, 2011 – 7:05 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Women 2.0 Startup Weekend (November 18-20, 2011 in San Francisco, CA) will host 150 hackers, designers, business and marketing people to build early-stage startups in 54 hours. Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2011 MENTORS and their ventures: Sasha Laundy (Founder, Women Who Code) Sasha loves helping others learn [...]
Bringing the Women 2.0 Revolution to SXSW 2012 – Please Vote!
August 16, 2011 – 6:35 am
By Veronika Sonsev (Founder & CEO, InSparq) The tech industry has traditionally been a boys’ club — women have been under represented as developers, founders and c-level executives. However, thanks to traditional and social media, a network of loosely associated groups (Women 2.0, Change the Ratio, RailsBridge, Girls in Tech, Women in Wireless, etc.) and [...]
One Year in San Francisco as an Engineer Turned Startup Founder
August 2, 2011 – 11:09 pm
By Hadiyah Mujhid (Co-Founder, Black Founders) Here is a timeline of my first year in San Francisco. You can also view the timeline on Dipity. Hint: You may want to start at the bottom and work your way up. One year in Startup Valley — August 5, 2011 It’s been a great first year. Gearing [...]
Why Should We Increase Women’s Participation in Technology, and How To Start Coding
July 5, 2011 – 3:00 pm
By Adda Birnir (Co-Founder & Front-End Developer, Balance Media) A week ago, I read a letter to the editor in the New York Times penned by Dr. Jane Margolis, a researcher at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. In her letter, Dr. Margolis expressed the importance of continuing to support the participation [...]
Toronto: Mobilizing Ladies Learning to Code Python
June 27, 2011 – 8:32 pm
By Heather Payne and Melissa Crnić (Organizers, Toronto Ladies Learning to Code) Serious question here. Where are all the female programmers? Despite efforts over the past few years to increase the number of women in tech, the percentage of female Computer Science graduates is dropping. Of developers involved in open source projects, only 1.5% are [...]
