'Black Girls Code' Workshops Hope to Change the Future Face of Tech

[the next guy]

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/201...ode-workshops-hope-change-future-face-of-tech

CHELSEA — Lake Sheffield, 12, of Brooklyn, tapped furiously at a game on her phone, whacking a virtual mole that popped up from a green background.

Lake, along with fifty girls aged 7 to 17, was not just playing with an app. It was a game she built, and she was checking to see that it was working.

On the second floor of Chelsea Market, across from Google headquarters, the organization Black Girls Code ran a workshop aimed at teaching computer programming skills to girls of color.

 

[Momentum]

Black Girls Code

Spoiler

....and will build the white man's platform

 

[MAKAVELI25]

The revolution will not be televized

 

[Chill]

That's the perfect location to open a coding workshop right across from Google themselves.

 

[Will Ross]

Need one for black kids not just girls.

 

[Crakface]

Black men so lazy though. Internet is Right there for you to learn Anything but nikkas wanna learn how to improve their appearence. The women are becoming the new men.

Whats most interesting is how these cacs are offering these services to black women but not black People. Meanwhile cacs will complain this is geared toward blacks and not *Everyone* That divide and conquer.

 

[I'm Billy FUCO!!]

That's great!!!

So.....what are black boys doing?

 

[PartyHeart]

Black men so lazy though. Internet is Right there for you to learn Anything but nikkas wanna learn how to improve their appearence. The women are becoming the new men.

Whats most interesting is how these cacs are offering these services to black women but not black People. Meanwhile cacs will complain this is geared toward blacks and not *Everyone* That divide and conquer.

Black Girls Code was created by a Black woman. I'm sure you're not familiar with the organization, but a simple google search could have shown you that. I love that someone is always nearby to try to take credit away from Black women when we're doing good though. And the irony is that its often not cacs

 

[Elle Driver]

Black Girls Code was created by a Black woman. I'm sure you're not familiar with the organization, but a simple google search could have shown you that. I love that someone is always nearby to try to take credit away from Black women when we're doing good though. And the irony is that its often not cacs

 

[the next guy]

Let's keep this positive folks

 

[Sane]

Nice. Been using java for a while now . Looking to learn python and javascript then hopefully learning a functional language like haskell

 

[Jone2three45]

Black men so lazy though. Internet is Right there for you to learn Anything but nikkas wanna learn how to improve their appearence. The women are becoming the new men.

Whats most interesting is how these cacs are offering these services to black women but not black People. Meanwhile cacs will complain this is geared toward blacks and not *Everyone* That divide and conquer.

Absolutley.

 

[Will Ross]

Black Girls Code was created by a Black woman. I'm sure you're not familiar with the organization, but a simple google search could have shown you that. I love that someone is always nearby to try to take credit away from Black women when we're doing good though. And the irony is that its often not cacs

Black women like you are the problem because you see everything as a competition.
The black woman that made this should be thinking of all black kids not just girls.

 

[Sane]

The shyt you can do with coding/programming

Being able to develop an idea and code it is

 

[Sinnerman]