Anchorage Programming Workshop Anchorage Maker Faire 7/27/13
Slide 2 Who is APW?Who is APW? Founded in March To empower women
(and friends) to learn programming. Woman == female-identified Men
are welcome if they are the guest of female participants. Slide 3
Why programming?Why programming? Computers are everywhere.
Programming can make our jobs (and lives) easier. > 1.1 million
new computing- related jobs by 2018 1 Slide 4 But why else
programming?But why else programming? Slide 5 And. Slide 6 Why
focus on women? 2 US workforce is 51% female; IT is less than 25%
Software written only by men works primarily for men. More diverse
teams build better software. Slide 7 We borrowed the ideaWe
borrowed the idea Slide 8 Mostly-female environmentMostly-female
environment Positive female role models. Fixing the confidence
differential. Allowing male guests keeps the environment
predominantly female, without being exclusionary. Slide 9 Past
WorkshopsPast Workshops Introduction to GitHub Web Fundamentals
HTML, Part 1 Open Work Session Slide 10 Upcoming WorkshopsUpcoming
Workshops GitHub this Wednesday! Sign up at our booth! More HTML
& CSS Python & Ruby Come tell us what you want to learn!
Slide 11 Find us!Find us! We have a booth here!
anchorageprogramming.org On Facebook:
facebook.com/anchorageprogramming Email:
[email protected] Slide 12 References 1 US Department
of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/11/art5full.pdf 2 National Center
for Women in Information Technology,
http://www.ncwit.org/resources/women-it-facts ColorWall Video Eric
Phetteplace,
https://vine.co/v/haaMzwHrwFrhttps://vine.co/v/haaMzwHrwFr Various
anecdotes: Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing, Margolis
& Fischer Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing
http://geekfeminism.org/ Slide 13 Questions? This slide deck: Coral
Sheldon-Hess & Becky Boone [email protected]
