Posts tagged ‘programming’

Ask a Geek Feminist: how do you figure out how to solve programming problems that aren’t covered in your classes?

What’s working to help me learn to program? Gamification, with some caveats…

This is a guest post from Jessamyn Smith, an open source developer in Portland who tweets at @jessamynsmith and blogs at Dreamwidth. Read on to find out her technological solution to annoying sexist jokes. I ...

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Audrey Tang, creator of Pugs, the first comprehensive implementation of Perl 6.

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our readers: I am a relative newbie in the world of coding. I took two semesters of intro to programming with Java this past school year ...

I just ran across Karen Rustad’s “How to teach programming: shy, practical people edition.” She cared more about making practical things than about what she perceived as “coding,” so her early technical life centered on ...

One thing I love about open stuff, such as open source communities, is that we (try to) measure people by what they contribute. I’m now Volunteer Development Coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation (although I am ...