Hello Parents and Guardians, This month is Womens History Month! One of the most important months to celebrate with you all due to the mission of XXCoders to teach young women how to code. This month we had our discussion posts on the most important women in our personal lives. Read more…
Hello Parents and Guardians, This month is Black History Month! We have our Black History Month lessons lined up for the month for every Thursday that we will be meeting on Zoom this month. Our lessons this month consist of block inspired code that tells a story about Mae Jemison Read more…
Hello Parents and Guardians, Happy New Year! This month in preparation for Black History Month we had our MLK Day Inspired Coding activity as well as continuing the Code Monster from Crunchzilla Javascript lessons. In world news it’s important to continue wearing our face masks as well as washing your Read more…
Hello Parents & Students, This month we began our Code Monster lessons from Crunchzilla which is a hybrid lesson of HTML/CSS/Javascript to allow the girls to prepare for their big website blog inspired project that will be completed by the last class of the school year in June 2021. Javascript Read more…
Hello Parents & Students. Today we began our XXCoders In-School Zoom Program for the 2020 to 2021 school year! To start things off we have a few projects planned for the girls throughout the school year as well as some holiday inspired coding activities for days such as Thanksgiving, New Read more…
Hello Parents & Students. Today we’ve started our faux website final project that will go into today and tomorrows lessons. Today we also had a representative from Girls Inc of Long Island speak to the girls regarding self-esteem, confidence, sexism, etc. The girls were broken up into groups to discuss Read more…
Hello Parents & Students, This afternoon we’ve completed our first HTML/CSS code with multiple files that reference and inherit from each other to create a faux website. This faux website starts in a “hallway” that allows the user to choose which room they’d like to visit, these rooms include a Read more…
Hello Parents & Students, Today we learned how to link an image or document from the Internet onto a web page for our HTML code! We also learned the introduction to our CSS, cascading style sheets to edit the code onto a website for its appropriate design. We began to Read more…
Hello Parents & Students, Today we had guest speaker Bonnie Sedotto from Oracle come to talk to us today regarding any questions or advice we’re seeking from the perspective of a Software Development Director. Bonnie is also part of Long Island Women in Tech and gave us super important advice Read more…
Hello Parents and Students, Today we had LaShana from Long Island Women in Tech & Kelly Services come and speak to us this afternoon on women in work spaces such as technology. LaShana was able to give XXCoders great insight and advice on the challenges that women not only in Read more…