Today I went to the Forward 5 > JS conference. This was my first tech conference since I finished Hackbright. I was so excited to have a nametag that had the word "software" on it! The speakers and panels were very insightful. One of my favorite speakers was Max Firtman, whose talk was entitled "The Web... Continue Reading →

Today Hackbright hosted a webinar given by the Apache Software Foundation. I have heard of open source software, but I did not know anything about the Apache Software Foundation. As the hour progressed I was increasingly amazed at all of the Apache projects. I had no idea that Cassandra (it is on my list of things... Continue Reading →

Tonight I attended the Earthtones event at Slack. I use Slack every day, so I was curious to meet the people behind the app that is so integral to my life these days. The event did not disappoint! The speakers were engaging and insightful. First, there was a recruiter from Slack who shared how best to... Continue Reading →

During my studying today I couldn't help but finish watching the AVL tree video from the MIT series! I have taken a few classes on React and I will continue to take them at every opportunity I get. Tonight's class was taught by another Michelle  -- Michelle Bu, who is an engineer at Stripe. Amazingly... Continue Reading →

Women Who Code San Francisco hosted an event to practice algorithms. The event was held at a recruiting agency, Talener SF. The evening began with a video of a lecture by an engaging MIT professor from the Introduction to Algorithms class. The lecture concerned AVL trees, which is a type of binary search tree. For... Continue Reading →

Today was the Spectra Hackathon. Originally, I was slated to code with a friend from Hackbright and two women who are graduate students in CS at a local college. However, once I saw the classes being offered I really wanted to take the classes; plus, our group had not done any planning for the hackathon.... Continue Reading →

San Diego Girl Develop It I am in San Diego today, and decided to take a React class from Girl Develop It in San Diego. For me, this was a return to where everything started. Prior to coming to Hackbright, I took multiple classes with Girl Develop It in San Diego, to see if in-person... Continue Reading →