Coder Blog

This Summer the XXCoders Annual Summer Camp was held in the Wyandanch Youth Center’s computer room. The girls started out with learning Scratch, which is a user friendly coding website made by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that many K-12 students are now using. Scratch maintains many introductory coding and programming processes such as basic functions, commands, operators, and variables. With the basic commands, functions, etc. being introduced by Scratch, the girls were able Read more…

Hey Parents and Students! Today was a wonderful day, a bittersweet ending to our Annual XXCoders Summer Camp! A huge shoutout and thank you to all of our supporters who stand behind XXCoders and all our work and what we stand behind. A thank you to Anissa from Girls Inc., Devra from Applicaster, and Shana from Kelly Services and Long Island Women in Technology for being our different guest speakers! A huge thank you to Read more…

Hello Parents and Students! Today was truly an amazing day for XXCoders. We were given the opportunity to go to Google NYC for our field trip! To start off our trip the girls woke up bright and early to head to Chelsea, NY. Once we first arrived the girls were given guest badges as a pass to walk around the multiple buildings that Google has to offer. We started off with a tour thanks to Read more…

Hey Parents and Students! Today the girls continued to code their .html files onto their different text editors. The girls had a guest speaker, Shauna to talk to the girls. Shauna encouraged the girls by talking about minorities in the workplace and not just the technology fields to pursue their dream jobs. We thanked her as a group and got little goodies such as sunglasses, buttons/pins, and stickers. Tomorrow we will not have the regular Read more…

Hey Parents and Students! Today after the girls ate their lunch they continued to code their blogs on different text editors. Some computers allowed ‘Sublime’ others allowed ‘Editpad Lite’ these two programs allow the .html files to be uploaded and typed out for the multiple sections and posts of their blogs to be compiled. The girls typed out their individual paragraphs and biographies for the introduction section of their soon to be blogs. Since this Read more…

Hope you had a wonderful weekend Parents and Students! Today we recapped our first week of XXCoders with going around the room and sharing our favorite thing we learned last week. We also went over as a class the beginning lines of our code to our blogs. The girls will personalize their blog posts and sections with a paragraph about themselves describing what their favorite hobbies are, what they’ve learned from XXCoders, and fun facts Read more…

We’ve made it through our first week! Only one more to go! Today the girls had an amazing day learning Python! In order to understand the code that we all typed as a group, we went around the room explaining and defining different methods and key terms that are used for different functions and outputs of code. Starting on Monday the girls will start their own little blog posts about themselves which incorporates Java/HTML. Since Read more…

Good evening Parents and Students! Today after the girls had their lunch we launched our first Python code. The girls were able to create how to roll a pair of die that produced two random numbers ranging from 1 to 6 like an actual dice. For tonight’s assignment that was given to the girls, they are looking at a linked piece of Python code at: https://trinket.io/python/3c4f6b2615 each of the girls were assigned one line of code. Read more…

Hello again Parents and Students! Today we had a lovely guest speaker Anissa from Girls Inc. come in and giver her speech about confidence. Anissa was kind enough to give the girls a designed notebook for the girls to keep. She also set up multiple interactive games so the girls were able to partner up with each other and describe what makes an ideal leader and role model. The girls were able to say who Read more…

Hello Parents and Students! Today to start off our second day of camp we were able to enjoy our lunches while the computers were being set up with the helpful website Scratch! Most of the students were able to understand the processes of Scratch and even had accounts already set up! On the first day of our 2019 camp we animated our names in different colors, shapes, and backgrounds to have individual name tags. However, Read more…