The path to becoming an engineer should be wide open and accessible for everyone. But that’s not the case today. By Alisha Ramos (Front-End Designer, Vox Media) This post originally appeared on Medium. I recently met up with a woman who wants to switch careers to...
One founder notices something odd when speaking on an entrepreneurship panel. By Ishveen Anand (Founder & CEO, OpenSponsorship) Last week I was asked to speak at the GW Women in Business entrepreneurship panel, an annual conference held at George Washington...
Desire, design and destiny: how to go from zero to coding hero. By Priyanka Sharma (Co-founder, WakaTime) This post originally appeared on WakaTime. I went to school for Political Science. There’s no logical reason why I should be running a developer analytics...
“Catching up” is irrelevant. Getting started, however, is hard. By Katie Siegel (Director, HackMIT) This post originally appeared on Medium. The summer before my freshman year of high school, I realized that I loved to swim. And so, much to the confusion of my...
If 2015 is ‘the year you’ll learn to code’, here are six pieces of advice worth taking before you get to work. By Belle Beth Cooper (Co-founder, Exist) I’ve been learning to build iOS apps in Objective-C for the past few months and I’m finally...