I started with Codecademy’s Code Year track and have been learning programming progressively ever since. It took me months to start and almost one year to get into the habit of coding frequently. By Dilys Sun (Student, Codecademy) Congratulations on learning how...
Hackbright Academy is an all-female web development class that turns beginner programmers into employable junior software engineers. By Susan Tan (Alumna, Hackbright Academy) As a code challenge for BloomReach, I wrote a program in Python that took in 500,000 lines of...
Apply early and do your best on the application, but do not agonize over it. Also please don’t wait until the start of Hacker School to start building. Start now. If you want to go to Hacker School, just remember – keep building. By Jane Wang (Hacker, Etsy) I...
After four weeks of pair programming full-time together, we are inseparable and finishing each others’ sentences. By Annie Chang & Louise Fox (Students, Hackbright Academy) We shared our passion for dogs and technology by building a website for dogwalkers,...
I love the challenges of pair programming — knowing when to stop for direction, when to brazenly code on, and when to take breaks. By Annie Chang (Student, Hackbright Academy) Time flies when you’re having fun, and we’re almost 20% done with the Hackbright Academy...