The Impact of Women Learning to Code in ...
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Concrete results and hurdles make the case: 38 women in Lagos (planned 30) and six follow-up workshops, new local Python user groups and a Pyladies chapter, participants landing internships and organizing code camps, and tools like Python, Django, GitHub, PythonAnywhere, Selenium and Robot Framework actually used in training. Persistent problems include unreliable electricity, limited internet, borrowed or very old laptops and the need to preload tutorials on USB drives with mixed results. Practical fixes and numbers drive whether this scales.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:12Statistics
- 3:40Challenges
- 6:42Change the Narrative
- 7:33Brain Growth
- 8:23Jungle Girls Nigeria
- 15:12Python Communities in Africa
- 15:55Python Africa
- 16:19More Django Girls
- 17:24Google Image Search
- 18:02Writing Documentation
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