January 2012
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Guessing Game: Which of These Sites are Built On...
WordPress is one of the most popular CMS solutions and argubly the best solution for non-technical people who don’t know HTML/CSS or how to code.
While it’s touted as a blogging platform, it’s versatile in its applications and GirlDevelopIt’s Philly Chapter is holding a “Using WordPress to Build a Website for Beginners” class next week to help those who dream...
November 2011
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Girl Develop It Groupie
This is a guest post from a student that GDI loves, Tracy Bartley. We wish Tracy the best in her new position, and appreciate her warming the cockles in our hearts.
I graduated at the height of the “great recession” with a Master of the Arts and moved to New York City. I worked in restaurants, volunteered, interned and worked in restaurants again until I landed a salaried job in a field which...
September 2011
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Introducing Girl Develop It Ottawa!
I’m happy to announce that the first GDI chapter in Canada has officially launched!
We’re thrilled to be part of this incredible community. Learn more about some of the ladies involved in making this happen…
Serena is a front-end developer and designer with a background in software development. She is passionate about mentoring and inspiring young females to explore fields of...
August 2011
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GirlDevelopIt Philly Chapter: Meet Your Teachers'...
We’re ecstatic about our impending inaugural class this Thursday, August 25th (Yes, tomorrow!). As we finalize some last-minute details, we want to give you an opportunity learn more about the people behind the scenes. Most specifically, our teachers’ aides.
We require at least one or two teachers’ aides for every class. This is to provide an extra helping hand to attendees,...
July 2011
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Hamptons Hackathon for Humanity - Results!
A cross-post from GDI teacher Izzy Johnston who covered the event on her blog.
Big thanks to our sponsors Silicon Valley Bank and Gunderson Dettmer
You can check out the fruits of our weekend at http://commutingintraffic.com
During what may have been the first all-female* hackathon in NY, fifteen people banded together to use technology to take on the global problem of human trafficking. We...
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Introducing Girl Develop It Austin!
Girl Develop It is super excited to welcome our newest chapter in Austin, TX. We are huge fans of the Austin technology scene here in New York, and when we heard from Garann Means and saw her awesome website we knew we wanted her to lead the charge. You can her site at http://garann.com and her blog at http://www.garann.com/dev/. Garann is a software developer at Vast.com, and we hear great things...
June 2011
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Hamptons Hackathon for Humanity
I love hackathons, but they are gross. 48 hours, no sleep or showers, and cheap food/beer. You build something awesome but you walk out smelling like PBR and Axe body spray (the preferred scent of college co-eds everywhere).
Enter: Girl Develop It (cue: superhero theme music). Jump Thru founder and friend of Girl Develop It Deborah Jackson contacted us last month with an incredible offer. She...
April 2011
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February 2011
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Meet Girl Develop It! (Six Month Snapshot)
Girl Develop It is 6 months old!!!
How we’ve grown! We’ve learned a lot of things, and met many amazing people. Our students are our biggest inspiration; eager to learn and very bright. They organize study groups, stay after class for extra help, and ALWAYS do their homework. We’re proud of the progress we have made, and we thought it was time to show the world what we have been...
January 2011
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A Student's Perspective on GDI: Isabella de Medici
We are always excited to get feedback about our courses and hear what the students got out of them. Today, we are pleased to introduce Isabella de Medici, who blogs about social media and the political climate at Polichic. Isabella recently wrote about women in technology, and her experience taking a class at Girl Develop It:
“Knowledge is not power - it is opportunity. In the United...
November 2010
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November and New Things
Our forth month of classes are in full swing. We’re really excited that we’ve made it this far, and the fact that we have over 70 enrolled men and ladies this month is still something we’re trying to get our heads around. HTML/CSS is being lead by Alexis Goldstein this month, and the space at New Work City holds our most popular class. Javascript/Jquery is being held in Brooklyn...
October 2010
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Announcing the WTF Lab! Come to learn, inquire,...
Tired of techies throwing around so many acronyms it makes your head spin? Want to build a cool website, but can’t decide whether to use RoR, PHP, MySQL, WTF, or BBQ? Maybe you bridged the gap and heard about a great new tool that makes building websites easy, but keep running into an internet radio site when you try to Google it? (Tricked you! That’s Jango, but you’re looking...
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People We Love: Dale Chase
As GDI’s very first guest blogger, we are thrilled to introduce Dale Chase. Dale is a NYC musician and techie who each week produces a remix of the tech news of the week. It is definitely the MOST fun you have ever had catching up on tech news. We asked Dale to tell us why he loves women who code, and here is what he said:
“Let me tell you why the developer girl is so awesome. Not...
Want more women in Tech? Live in NYC? Donate your...
Girl Develop IT, who provide low-cost programming to women in NYC, is looking for a few good laptops! Used laptops, to be exact! Do you have a laptop sitting in your closet that you haven’t even bothered to sell because, why bother? WE NEED THAT LAPTOP! We are getting more and more requests from students who’d like to borrow laptops. And we would like to have 4-6 dedicated laptops...
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Want more women in Tech? Live in NYC? Donate your...
Girl Develop IT, is looking for a few good laptops! Do you have an old laptop sitting in your closet that you haven’t even bothered to sell because, why bother? WE NEED THAT LAPTOP! We are getting more and more requests from students who’d like to borrow laptops. It’s important to us to be able to provide loaner laptops for students who want to take our low-cost programming...
September 2010
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Introducing "Foundations for Founders"
The second round of Girl Develop IT classes is more than halfway through along now. The HTML class is working on making multiple style sheets for our GDI home page (if we really like one, we will use it!) The Javascript class is learning about different types of events in JQuery and manipulating page elements. We have been really excited at the enthusiasm and participation of this HTML/CSS class,...
August 2010
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Welcome GDI Australia!!!
We were very excited when we saw that Pamela Fox was interested in starting Girl Develop IT classes in Austrailia. Our official position on branching out has been that since we don’t yet have a complete understanding of what we are doing we want to wait before authorizing groups in other cities. We agree that this is a great need, and want to make sure we can equip new teams with all the...
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GDI Could Use Some Stuff (and People)
We are now nearing the end of our mid-session break, and planning is going full hilt for the next two sessions that are approaching. We have our first Javascript series starting next Wednesday (9/1) and the following Tuesday begins our second round of HTML/CSS classes.
After our recent postmortem we will be making some curriculum changes. We decided that instead of doing small projects each...
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it's raining announcements!
Now that our first series of classes is completed we are taking a respite, and reflecting on our first experience. We have gotten some great feedback and suggestions from the students, and based on those and our personal experiences we will be embarking on our second iteration.
Our next series of HTML classes is scheduled to start on 9/7 at 7pm. This group will be running parallel to our...
and we have graduates(almost)!!!!
This past Wednesday we finished the fourth class in our first series on HTML/CSS. This was our first pass, and we learned a lot about our process and our audience. We knew this would be an iterative process from the beginning, our intentions are to improve each time with the knowledge we garnered on the last pass. We’re doing our post-mortem as a group next Wednesday, and we are sending out...
Welcome to the GIrl Develop It Blog!!!
More coming soon….