- 1. Anchorage Programming WorkshopAnchorage Maker Faire 7/27/13
2. Who is APW? Founded in March To empower women (and friends) to learn programming. Woman == female-identified Men are welcome if they are the guest of female participants. 3. Why programming? Computers are everywhere. Programming can make our jobs (and lives) easier. > 1.1 million new computingrelated jobs by 20181 4. But why else programming? 5. And. 6. Why focus on2 women? US workforce is 51% female; IT is less than 25% Software written only by men works primarily for men. More diverse teams build better software. 7. Mostly-female environment Positive female role models. Fixing the confidence differential. Allowing male guests keeps the environment predominantly female, without being exclusionary. 8. We borrowed the idea 9. Past Workshops Introduction to GitHub Web Fundamentals HTML, Part 1 Open Work Session 10. Upcoming Workshops GitHub this Wednesday! Sign up at our booth! More HTML & CSS Python & Ruby Come tell us what you want to learn! 11. Find us! We have a booth here! anchorageprogramming.org On Facebook: facebook.com/anchorageprogramming Email: [email protected] 12. References 1 US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/11/art5full.pdf 2 National Center for Women in Information Technology, http://www.ncwit.org/resources/women-it-factsColorWall Video Eric Phetteplace, https://vine.co/v/haaMzwHrwFr Various anecdotes: Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing, Margolis & Fischer http://geekfeminism.org/ 13. Questions? This slide deck: http://bit.ly/apw-slidesCoral Sheldon-Hess & Becky Boone [email protected]
