by klowewilliams | Mar 10, 2017 | Color Coded, Experience, Urban GeekMom
There has been a lot of dialogue around the lack of diversity in tech and STEM in general. The need for a diverse workforce in many tech startups and the development teams within many larger organizations has been a topic of discussion for quite some time now. There...
by klowewilliams | Feb 22, 2017 | Color Coded, Experience, Urban GeekMom
I recently read an article that really brought to light a “unique” set of skills in the simplest way. A Technologist is literally defined as one who specializes in technology. In other words someone who has been exposed to and picked up all kinds of RANDOM...
by klowewilliams | Jan 3, 2016 | Experience, Urban GeekMom
So a very cool feature of MS Visual Studio is the Debugger… being able to step through code and watch it in action is very helpful to a visual learner such as myself. Right now I’m working on loops… yes basic loops again in my life. I am trying to be...
by klowewilliams | Aug 26, 2015 | ACLTC, Experience, Urban GeekMom
As part of my ongoing self learning experience this evening I am experimenting with Ruby ‘case statements’. Not much to say on this as I am trying to grasp the power of this functionality but I wanted to share and publicly thank @skorks for this great...
by klowewilliams | Aug 12, 2015 | ACLTC, Experience, Urban GeekMom
I survived an adrenaline and nerve filled day. The showcase of our capstone projects at Anyone Can Learn to Code. The entire room was quite a buzz the whole 2.5 hours. I received so much positive feedback and interest in my application/site – it was great! If...
by klowewilliams | Jul 31, 2015 | ACLTC, Experience, Urban GeekMom
I received the best compliment of the year very recently from one of the awesome TAs @ACLTC. While assisting me with my feeble attempt to implement an Angular directive in my code he pointed out the reason I wasn’t getting it was because I was thinking in Ruby...