Henrietta Kekäläinen wants women to gatecrash the programming and software-development party, currently crowded by men. The 24-year-old Finn organises a Helsinki-based non-profit that organises weekend workshops to give women their first taste of writing code to build web apps. "Women have a lot to contribute and they think in a different way," she says. "It's easier to be in our workshop than a Javascript meet with 100 guys drinking beer. You don't have to pretend you are an expert in HTML or CSS."
By: Daniel Cossins, Edited by: David Cornish
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/03/start/code-clubs-for-the-other-half
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