3. Goals + Mission
• Create a community where women can work and learn
together regardless of their backgrounds.
• Help women acquire skills needed to achieve personal
and professional goals.
• Help women build confidence while picking up a new
skill or starting their own company.
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5. Programming Can Help You:
• Builds programs like Facebook, Twitter or the next Big Thing!
• Enhance your current skill set
• Become a Professional Developer
• Start your own business
• Teach/Volunteer
• Think differently
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10. • Created by Brendan Eich at
Netscape
• Runs in Browser & Server
• Java is not JavaScript!
• Is actually named ECMAScript!
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20. Stay Focused On Your Goal!
• Practice coding everyday
• Start a project or work on building an app
• Start a tech blog
• Get a Github account
• Find a mentor and study buddies
• Contribute to open source projects
• Teach what you learned
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21. Resources
• Code Crew Curriculum
• Eloquent JavaScript
• Learn to Program
• Codecademy
• Code School
• Treehouse
• Khan Academy
• Udacity
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22. Women Groups + Orgs
• Women Who Code
• Girls in Tech
• Railsbridge
• PyLadies
• Girl Develop It
• Rails Girls
• Girls Who Code
• Black Girls Code
• League of Women Coders
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