Earn a free Front End Web Developer Scholarship from Google and Udacity

What you are most proud of from the past 3 months in the Challenge course?

One, being chosen

I was always a little intimidated by JavaScript when I first started using it in 1995. The e-commerce startup company I was working at bet the farm on Java over JavaScript. They built their core product, a shopping cart, using Java not JavaScript. At that time JavaScript had a pretty bad reputation in the firm. And that sentiment about JavaScript has lingered with me all this time until I completed this course.

2017 Devember hackathon

Everybody should learn to code. If this sounds strange to you, try to imagine the people that fought against illiteracy, not much time ago. Probably their ideas sounded strange to many, back then. Nowadays, having quite won against illiteracy, we face a new form of it: code illiteracy. People that don’t know how to code are code illiterate. Code literacy enables a great power, a power of freedom.

Free Ruby on Rails Workshop at NYCDA

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Free Ruby on Rails Workshop for Women in New York. Photo credit: Together Visuals

This workshop focus will be on developing functional web apps and programming in Ruby. Held on September 9 and 10th at The New York Code + Design Academy located in financial district of lower Manhattan.

RailsBridge NYC works to increase diversity in tech by putting on awesome free events.

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