6 Top Tips for Every First-Time Coder

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...

Record Number of Women Give Tech Talks at PyCon 2013

PyCon is more than where Donglegate began. This year, PyCon boasted a record number of talks delivered by women. As always, they provided a generous financial aid program promoted by many diversity-minded groups. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women...

The Value in Disrupting Yourself: Apprentice at a Startup!

‘Disrupt’ is a word that gets thrown around often in entrepreneurial and tech startup communities. But in order to disrupt an industry or market, you have to first disrupt yourself. By Jasmine Gao (Data Strategist, Bitly & Fellow, Enstitute) “You always have to do...

What Have I Learned in the First Week of Coding in Python?

I have spent only one week with Python, but I love it. It’s straight forward with a minimum amount of extra syntax, such as semicolons, curly brackets, etc. By Gulnara Mirzakarimova (Student, Hackbright Academy) So, what have I learned during the first week? To sum it...

Sponsored: Python in Finance (April 5 in NYC)

Sponsored by: Fountainhead is a Big Data and Big Compute company that specializes in HPC & GPU for financial services and insurance. This Fountainhead event is hosted by Bank of America Merrill Lynch. If you are interested in programming in finance and Big Data,...