Female Role Models: Grace Hopper, the “Queen of Software”
‘If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it because it’s much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.’ Grace Hopper This is the story of a woman whose list of achievements is endless. Grace Hopper, or…
I want to learn to code online, where do I start?
Alright, so you’ve decided that you want to learn to code, but the question is: where does one start? There are so many different opinions online and when you Google this question, most of them say different things. I’m obviously…
Female Role Models: Hedy Lamarr, an actress and the “mother” of modern-day …
This is another woman with an inspirational story, showing that you can multitask and combine “unmixable” stereotypes. To put things into context: Europe is in the middle of an active militarisation, where countries pick sides and you can feel the tension…
Female Role Models: the first programmer in history, Ada Lovelace
For me personally, the biggest discovery was not the fact that the first programmer in history was a woman, but that it was Lord Byron’s daughter, Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace. To put things into context: Lord Byron is well…
Why you should learn how to code: it’s a gym for …
The other day I saw an image on my Instagram feed that made me smile and nod uncontrollably. I was standing in front of a baggage carousel at a busy airport, so people around me may have started looking at…
Computer Girls and Masculinisation of Programming as a Profession
The more I research the subject, the more interesting information I find. The other day I wrote a post about the gender gap in the programming world and today I’d like to go in more details about its history. Software as…
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