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Making Software Development Make Sense to Everyone
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Summary
Jen Myers discusses the need to make software development attractive and accessible to a larger audience, improving the overall development and learning process in order to have better programmers.
Bio
Jen Myers is a web designer, front-end web developer and an instructor at Dev Bootcamp Chicago, an intensive web development education program. In 2011, she founded the Columbus, Ohio chapter of Girl Develop It, a group that provides introductory coding classes aimed at women, and she currently co-leads the Girl Develop It Chicago chapter.
About the conference
Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that aims to bring together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile development, and the web.
Oct 28, 2013