JavaScript online learning platform for women interested in Web technologies

1. for women interested in Web
technologies
Daisy LaFlamme
JAVASCRIPT ONLINE
LEARNING PLATFORM

2. Why I Care?
• Men dominate the computer’s industries
• More women need to be attracted to programing
• Women have different worldview and they can put a whole new
perspective in the programming and technology world. They will be
more interested in coding if it is combined not only with logical but
with practical real-life creativity; they prefer jobs where they can
use their creativity and improve live.

3. Why JavaScript?
• Recently, the recruitment company Entelo released its statistic
report on Forbs:

4. Research & Statistics
• Co. Labs: 34% of Web designers are women
• Carnegie Mellon Research: programmers are learning and doing
programing using the language area of their brains. Women’s
language area is more precisely organized, and is bigger in volume
than in male
• More (References)

5. My Goal
• Cover the learning gap and attract women to learn JavaScript
• Learn JavaScript the easiest way

6. Methods
• Visual/Interactive
• Tearetical

7. Interviews & Feedback
• Amy Newell
• Daniela Grey
• Denitsa Vateva
• Vladimir Grozev
• Class group
Professionals/Users

8. Technology I Use
• Content management system: Modx
• Bootstrap 3
• HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, JavaScript, plugins

9. Progress

13. What is Left until Final Presentation
• Content for the theoretical part (libraries)
• Proofreading the tutorials
• Add one more future: reserved words widget
• Solve design issues
• Fix bugs

14. Future after the Final Presentation
• More/continuous user testing
• Changes
• Legalizing (buying) content and creatives
• Partnerships
• Launch: September 25, 2015
• Adding more futures:
① feedback widget
② Post comment widget
③ User group based log in for building a community
• Analytics and narrowing down the audience

15. References
• Code.org (2014). The Code.org CS Principles Curriculum Overview. Retrieved from
http://code.org/files/CSPCurriculumOverview.pdf
• Dev Bootcamp (2014). Retrieved from http://devbootcamp.com/
• Derichs-Kunstmann, K. (1994). Women Learn Differently. Retrieved from http://www.uni-
ulm.de/LiLL/5.0/E/5.3/women.html
• Haverbeke, M. (2011). Eloquent JavaScript: A modern introduction to programming. San Francisco: No Starch Press.
• Hodgins, Dan. (2008). Male and Female Differences. Retrieved from
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/llog/Hodgins1.pdf
• James, Abigail Norfleet. (2009). Teaching the female brain: how girls learn math and science. Thousand Oaks, Calif.:
Corwin.
• Konrad, Alex (2014, August 12). These Programming Languages Have The Most (And Fewest) Female Coders. Retrieved
from http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2014/08/12/these-programming-languages-have-the-most-and-fewest-
female-coders/
• Lean In (2014). Ban Bossy. Retrieved from http://banbossy.com/
• Resnic, M., Maloney, J., Monroy-Hernandez, A., & Rusk, N., Eastmond, E., Brenan, K., Millner, A., Rosenbaumn, A., Silver
J., Silverman, B., & Kafai, Y. (2009). Scratch: Programing for All. Communications of the ACM, 52 (11). Retrieved from
http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/papers/Scratch-CACM-final.pdf
• Siegmund, Janet, Kastner, C., Apel, S., Parnin, C., Bethmann, A., Leich, T., Saake, G., Brechmann, A. (2014) Understanding
Source Code with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on
Software Engineering, 378-389. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ckaestne/pdf/icse14_fmri.pdf Taft, Darryl (2014, February 10).
Top 10 Programming Languages for Job Seekers in 2014. Retrieved from
http://www.eweek.com/developer/slideshows/top-10-programming-languages-for-job-seekers-in-
2014.html/#sthash.Hz9ryjoP.dpuf
• W3School (2014). JavaScript Tutorial. Retrieved from http://www.w3schools.com/js/