Code Like a Girl

I'd start with Python. With the exception of (3), all the other resources you've mentioned are - to me - about getting conceptually better at developing. Mentioning your background does help, actually. I'd recommend 'Automate the Boring Stuff with Python'. That way you'll learn while also seeing how tangible the benefits can be. https://automatetheboringstuff.com/ I'm also adding a link to an article I've written a while back for non-developers looking to get into coding: https://code.likeagirl.io/making-coding-skills-useful-as-a-non-develop…

--A bit of a Rant--- I would argue that politics have infiltrated tech too much already. Don't believe me, try being a open, vocal Trump supporter or conservative at a major tech company in Silicon valley. You will be labeled a hateful, racist (fill in your favorite derogatory term) based on your political beliefs irregardless of your actual actions both at work or even in your personal life. Most people who are conservative are afraid to talk about their political beliefs due to the very real threat of losing their job. Look at Larry Garfield with Drupal. In the course of things stuff went as far as people in the Drupal association actively trying to ban conservatives among other things. The ruby community is just as bad. Rails Girls, Rails Bridge and later on tech404.io banned a woman because she was conservative https://code.likeagirl.io/thoughts-from-the-editor-172e93eccbb1. Then there was Opalgate where a community diversity leader tried to get a key contributor banned over his personal conservative beliefs. At this years Lambdaconf a black, first time speaker and military veteran, who grew up dirt poor in the projects, but pulled himself up by his bootstraps was blasted by a group of people because in his personal life he believes in the red pill, specifically, in his own words seeking the truth, not being anti-woman. As a moderate I really don't need to be concerned about someone's personal beliefs work with people or to even have a friendship with them. People…

I took a class on computer vision and we used the OpenCV library extensively [0]. I remember that we had a project relating to detecting certain traffic signs, and obtaining the dominant color of images was a big part of my solution. Also, this tutorial seems like it would be helpful [1]. [0] https://opencv.org/ [1] https://code.likeagirl.io/finding-dominant-colour-on-an-image-b4e075f9…

Ah yes, the "cool tech girl" position. https://code.likeagirl.io/the-myth-of-the-cool-tech-girl-7868fa63769b I'm glad she has a positive experience. It's far from common. I wish her good luck on the road of discovering empathy.

It's an interesting idea but I don't think it holds up. The earliest tabulators didn't use punch cards to store "programs" but to encode data, and the mechanical work of punching data into cards, then processing those cards, was fairly rote. "Programming" those machines meant rewiring, as it did for quite a few generations of technology. So while the card handling was certainly done by both men and women [0], I think it's a stretch to suppose it bridged weaving and later (stored program) programming. Others here will probably have personal memories of the late mainframe era, but my understanding is that even then writing code and punching it on to cards were not necessarily done by the same person, with code first written out long hand on special forms then punched by a specialist. [1] [0] First, at scale, in the 1890 US census. I just published a book with a chapter on this: http://www.thesumofthepeople.com [1] e.g. as described here https://code.likeagirl.io/the-first-program-i-ever-wrote-5a5a6b08469c