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| readymade Apr 2, 2014 | on: My First Year of Coding | context |
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marquis Aug 2, 2013 | on: Ask HN: My friend wants to get in on CS. How should she… | context
She needs to have an idea that interests her to work on, that has a specific goal. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6097155 as another good example. There are heaps of places to start depending on the language she's interested in, and it's really important she does some online CS classes from Stanford or something so she gets what is happening in the computer from the very beginning. A bit of theory goes a long way! Once she has a base understanding she might look at getting an internship to learn the ropes, if she isn't tied to a job right now or needs good income immediately. I've been involved with teaching girls to code so the above comes from experience. |
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emehrkay Mar 14, 2016 | on: Show HN: Zube 1.0 – Powerful project management for GitHub… | context
Is Zube a direct result of your 180 days of coding exercise (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6097155) that you did a while back? If so, amazing. Very inspiring |
It's worth revisiting the original HN post from last year:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6097155
IMHO she deserves kudos not just for accomplishing her goal (which really is impressive enough on its own) but doing so in the face of a community with such deeply ingrained sexism that some people thought it "suspicious" at the outset.
Obviously she's a strong enough person that this kind of stuff didn't derail her project, but one can only imagine what a different world we'd be in if projects like these were met with more encouragement and less derision.
Not that the haters are getting any satisfaction today.