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. A lot of the XXCoders talked about their mothers as well as their older sisters and how much they sacrifice for the well-being of their 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 the first black woman to go to space in 1992 as well as a discussion on why the Black Lives Matter movement is so important 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 hands and/or sanitizing frequently due to the big COVID-19 holiday spike.
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 is a coding language that hasn’t been taught before for the XXCoders so we’re grateful to learn something new for the upcoming New Year 2021! 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 Years, Black History Month, Women’s History Month, etc. A capstone like project will be to create our own websites on Trinket.io that will have multiple Read more…
Hello Parents & Students. Today we continued our HTML/CSS journey by completing the home page and other tabs onto our faux website! The girls included pages such as a biography about themselves, why diversity and inclusion is important to them, and why the importance of Black Lives Matter movement is necessary. We ran camp a bit later this afternoon to grasp any personalized questions the girls had for the code outline that was given to 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 what they would do if they created a company and what their company would target or try to eliminate. The girls thought of ideas such 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 game room and TV room. We’ve designed these rooms through code to also capture any input files or images that may be downloaded onto the 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 talk about different colors, color codes, borders, margins, lines, etc. that can be added to our CSS file that is referenced onto the HTML file 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 like that regardless of what we pursue in the future Computer Science will follow us and how important it is to network with our peers Read more…