Good coding groups for black women?
Hi! So I run a creative boot camp for artists in New York City, and I am starting a non profit to help inspire young female coders towards learning technical skills that will help the flourish! Obviously it’s good that every one has access to resources to help learn. I run a creator studio for artists that is for everyone - with most of my time devoted to that full time role. But Justin the side, I’ve noticed many young female coders from one of my home grounds/neighborhoods are reaching out to my foundation more and more - asking how they can learn more. I do have a decent amount of funding. But I want to make sure I am giving these girls free resources as well. Anyone know any good groups, schools, programs for young black girls who are ready to level up, be a boss, and thrive? All help greatly appreciated!! -Dak
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Keep in mind. Many of these girls are in either K-8, middle school or high school. So they don’t have access to LinkedIn (perhaps if there are websites they can utilize, please list the website instead of the forum - especially if it’s a website that is designed more for educational purposes)
For kids in that age range, I'd recommend checking out Bootstrap [0].
[0] https://www.bootstrapworld.org/
[0] https://www.bootstrapworld.org/
PS:
https://www.womenwhocode.com/
https://rladies.org/
https://pyladies.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_for_wome...
It's a shame because, as a woman, I see these groups then never get involved. I know there are GIS and R-based ones as well, but they are often language or topic-specific!
https://www.womenwhocode.com/
https://rladies.org/
https://pyladies.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_for_wome...
It's a shame because, as a woman, I see these groups then never get involved. I know there are GIS and R-based ones as well, but they are often language or topic-specific!
Geospatial, if they like maps:
- https://womeningis.wildapricot.org/
- https://womeningeospatial.org/
Engineering:
- https://www.wes.org.uk/
- https://www.ieee.org/membership/women/index.html
- https://swe.org/
- https://womeningis.wildapricot.org/
- https://womeningeospatial.org/
Engineering:
- https://www.wes.org.uk/
- https://www.ieee.org/membership/women/index.html
- https://swe.org/
Could you maybe reach out to SWEs/directors/founders on LinkedIn who matches your criteria and see if any of them could be a regular mentor at your organization?
I think groups are fine, but as a former child and later a mentor through orgs like BBBS, I do think having a personal presence goes far beyond just another group I can maybe sign up to join or be admitted to. Maybe someone who is themselves doing something in tech that mixes art + tech.
NYC has a pretty big tech scene, so I'm sure you will find someone. Good luck! Sounds like a cool thing you're doing.
I think groups are fine, but as a former child and later a mentor through orgs like BBBS, I do think having a personal presence goes far beyond just another group I can maybe sign up to join or be admitted to. Maybe someone who is themselves doing something in tech that mixes art + tech.
NYC has a pretty big tech scene, so I'm sure you will find someone. Good luck! Sounds like a cool thing you're doing.
The one I've heard about over the years is Black Girls Code: https://www.wearebgc.org/
Not sure if they have an NYC presence but I like this organization: http://www.resilientcoders.org/
This is specific to python but Pyladies has a pretty active community in NYC
One of the few times I wish we had dms here. :) I do not have many groups to offer, but for educational resources, here you go... Dig around on GitHub for Awesome Lists. There is so much out there:
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome#learn
- https://github.com/mike-north/awesome-learn-to-code
- https://github.com/lauragift21/awesome-learning-resources
- https://github.com/afontcu/awesome-learning
- https://github.com/yrgo/awesome-educational-games
- https://github.com/notpresident35/awesome-learn-gamedev
- https://github.com/RahulBirCodes/awesome-steam
- https://github.com/Ghassen-Chaabouni/machine_learning_games
- https://github.com/microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners
- https://github.com/microsoft/ML-For-Beginners
Also check out this list Pitt puts out every year: - https://github.com/SimplifyJobs/Summer2024-Internships
and make sure to ping www.skypeascientist.com for speakers.
More, maybe useful:
- https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp
- https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python
- https://github.com/DopplerHQ/awesome-interview-questions
- https://github.com/LeCoupa/awesome-cheatsheets
- https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning
- https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
- https://github.com/Roobyx/awesome-game-design
- https://github.com/dh-tech/awesome-digital-humanities
- https://github.com/bytecauldron/awesome-gamemaker
- https://github.com/academic/awesome-datascience
- https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin
- https://github.com/qinwf/awesome-R
- https://github.com/rossant/awesome-math
- https://github.com/newTendermint/awesome-bigdata
- https://github.com/luong-komorebi/Awesome-Linux-Software
- https://github.com/ChristosChristofidis/awesome-deep-learnin...
- https://devhints.io/
I'll make another comment if I find anymore in my bookmarks. I'm also an educator.
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome#learn
- https://github.com/mike-north/awesome-learn-to-code
- https://github.com/lauragift21/awesome-learning-resources
- https://github.com/afontcu/awesome-learning
- https://github.com/yrgo/awesome-educational-games
- https://github.com/notpresident35/awesome-learn-gamedev
- https://github.com/RahulBirCodes/awesome-steam
- https://github.com/Ghassen-Chaabouni/machine_learning_games
- https://github.com/microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners
- https://github.com/microsoft/ML-For-Beginners
Also check out this list Pitt puts out every year: - https://github.com/SimplifyJobs/Summer2024-Internships
and make sure to ping www.skypeascientist.com for speakers.
More, maybe useful:
- https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp
- https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python
- https://github.com/DopplerHQ/awesome-interview-questions
- https://github.com/LeCoupa/awesome-cheatsheets
- https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning
- https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
- https://github.com/Roobyx/awesome-game-design
- https://github.com/dh-tech/awesome-digital-humanities
- https://github.com/bytecauldron/awesome-gamemaker
- https://github.com/academic/awesome-datascience
- https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin
- https://github.com/qinwf/awesome-R
- https://github.com/rossant/awesome-math
- https://github.com/newTendermint/awesome-bigdata
- https://github.com/luong-komorebi/Awesome-Linux-Software
- https://github.com/ChristosChristofidis/awesome-deep-learnin...
- https://devhints.io/
I'll make another comment if I find anymore in my bookmarks. I'm also an educator.
Mixed feelings about these long lists of resources, there's a lot of value in careful curation. Young kids won't have the ability to effectively sift through so much content and pick out the appropriate path.
Not that I blame you in particular for sharing these resources, but maybe we as part of the older generation could do a better job of providing more clearly paved paths and on-ramps to help young kids get up to speed.
Not that I blame you in particular for sharing these resources, but maybe we as part of the older generation could do a better job of providing more clearly paved paths and on-ramps to help young kids get up to speed.
Ha, I know; I meant these for OP! OP may find some things to hand out to the people they know who need them. That is how I do it; they are references to me so that when people come to me with a problem, I can quickly source an aid or at least have a starting point. Apologies, I was not clear.
On one hand, people yell from every rooftop that they, in the US for instance, are for equality of everyone, regardless of colour of their skin and sex. On the hand, they, or others but within their society still, start coding groups for "black women".