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 tech but other male dominated work fields may face. We were able to also ask LaShana questions during our Q&A portion any questions that we Read more…
Hello Parents & Students, Today we read an article that gives eight reasons as to why kids should learn how to code. It’s important for the girls to realize and understand that even if they don’t become a programmer or Computer Science expert in the future, coding can be applied to almost every work field. It’s also important for the girls to understand the technology they use in their everyday lives. We also completed our Read more…
Hello Parents & Students, Today the XXCoders created two mid-sized Python projects! The first project consisted of a friendship calculator that allowed the user to input two names and depending on how many vowels the names had, it would increase the friendship score. The second project was a secret message code that allowed the user to input a message and a number which would return an encrypted version of the message that was inputted. For Read more…
Hello Parents and Students, Today we continued our practice Python exercises! We went over what we learned last week with variables, data types, and if-else statements in Python rather than Scratch. For the remainder of the week if needed we will refer back to the exercises if anyone doesn’t understand the code that was learned during these past few sessions. Since there’s a bunch of new coders here with us for our XXCoders Summer Remote Read more…
Hello Parents & Students, Today we’ve moved on from Scratch to a programming language called Python! Python is a super efficient and user-friendly programming language that is free and allows it’s users to create code for projects. Companies that use Python include but are not limited to: Spotify, Facebook, Netflix, Dropbox, Google, and Philips. In order for all of our new coding beginners to understand how Python is used we’ll be doing smaller exercises with Read more…
Hello Parents & Students, Today marks the end of our first week of our XXCoders Remote Summer Camp! We’ve recapped what we learned over the past week: if-then statements, if-then else statements, binary, an introduction to loops, why coding is important, and the importance of networking and diversity especially for women in technology! We’d like to thank you guys for an amazing first week of our XXCoders Remote Summer Camp. For next week we will Read more…
Hello Parents & Students, Today we had a lovely guest speaker join us, Stefana Muller from Long Island Women in Tech! Stefana gave the XXCoders a great presentation on the importance of Women and Diversity in Technology. Inclusion is a great way for companies and different industries to be more successful in the long run while also being able to create opportunities for their employees. Stefana also showed us why it’s important to network with Read more…
Hello Parents & Students, Today we’ve continued our lesson on the importance of code and how it’s part of our online lives! We watched an interesting TED talk on the platform we’re learning this week, Scratch. Scratch is a user-friendly website or application that can be used to create online projects through block-based visual programming interfaces. In class, we went over Binaries and how a majority of our code can be interpreted as 0s or Read more…
Hello Parents & Students. Today on our second day of remote camp we continued our introductions around the Zoom classroom to familiarize ourselves with other girls part of XXCoders around Long Island! It’s amazing to see the diversity in students we’ve reached throughout Town of Huntington & Town of Babylon. We wanted to make sure the girls were comfortable talking to Ms. Diana and most importantly to each other in order to help each other. Read more…
Hello Parents & Students, Today we distributed laptops to girls in need who are interested in joining our XXCoders Remote Summer Session! Thank you to Ms. Reynolds from the Family Life Center at Wyandanch for allowing our girls to utilize the laptops. At noon today we also gave out pizza and free swag bags to the girls for lunch before we began our Remote camp. We first started off with introducing ourselves and learning how Read more…