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As usual, Vox has been putting out quality and engrossing content relating to technology and science. Here's an oldie-but-goodie about simulation theory, and the feasibility of it!
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
Fun, short little video I found by Vox explaining bitcoin!
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
I'm always a fan of demystifying complex concepts – especially one as complicated as blockchain. With the rise of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, it's important to stay aware of new technology coming out. But how does one break down something as complicated as blockchain? Watch this video by Wired above to find out.
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
Another Jubilee video that I greatly recommend!
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
I really, really love this new series from Youtube's Jubilee, of bringing those with different backgrounds together. Give it a watch!
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
I've often been told by various people that the gender wage gap is a myth – well, it's not. Watch this fantastic, short video by Vox explaining just why.
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Quality computer science education is often hard to achieve these days without mountains of student loan debt and regret. Although CS is a bustling and rapidly expanding field, it can be hard to acquire the tools needed to succeed without some sacrifices. Today, I'm recommended a new story that deals with the supposed $19 all-inclusive coding education. Could this possibly be the future of higher education in STEM?
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
As more women begin speaking out and announcing #MeToo, it begs the question: should we be fighting for equality or equity? Is one inherently better that the other? Read this fantastic article put together by the Pew Research Center in delving into some inequities between women of color and men in STEM.
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
A old but good YouTube video on the importance of coding that I really enjoyed!
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
I recommend making lists to help prioritize. And I've noticed that making my bed each morning really helps too to start off the day right! @Natasha Ravinand
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
A great analysis on robots & their implications for the future.
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
Do you guys think is a viable option for community interaction?
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
Start by getting up early, make your bed and don't stop moving. It's sets off your day x
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Girls With Dreams: Inspiring Girls to Code and Create in the N...
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
I really hope Americans can unite and realize that we have to work together to make the world truly a better place.
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
Really, really great read on the importance of understanding each other + tech diversity in other countries.
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
Scarlett Johansson calls out James Franco, saying #timesup. What do you think?
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
Incredibly informative TEDTalk about the importance of diversity in technology.
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
Recently, ex-Googler James Damore announced that he would be suing Google for their "discrimination" against white male conservatives. For context, Damore released an anti-diversity manifesto in the late summer of 2017 which critiqued including more minorities and women in technology. What do you guys think of this situation? How far should free speech go in a corporation as important as Google?
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
This is a great question! In my opinion, a good introductory programming language for an absolute beginner has a few characteristics:
1. It is general-purpose - some languages are focused on a very specific task, while others are general and can do almost anything, though maybe not as well as the single-purpose languages. When a language is general purpose, you learn how to think like a programmer. When a language is single-purpose, you learn how to think in that particular language. Of course you want to learn to think in that particular language, but thinking like a programmer is the real lesson here. Once you think like a programmer, you can accomplish almost anything you can dream up.2. It is easy to read - a heuristic here is "does it look like English?"3. It is easy to understand - similar to the 1st characteristic but a heuristic here is when a beginner is given a piece of code in this language, does it mean what they think it means?4. It is easy to setup - in order to begin programming in this language, how many things do you have to do and how simple/complex are those things?5. It has a big community - as a beginner, you generally do not want to start learning a language that only 2 people know in the worldOkay, now that I've listed out all of those things, my recommendation is Ruby. Check it out at https://www.ruby-lang.org! -
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Proud of this.
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Meet Natasha Ravinand: The President of Northwood High
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
Awesome article for those thinking about starting/picking up a new career in coding! Very interesting tips and tricks.
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
A unique take on how a coding bootcamp may or may not be for you. For those who might not be aware, a coding bootcamp is typically a few months long, with concentrated focus on learning various programming disciplines.
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
Absolutely great read on a couple women using tech for their own, inspiring pursuits. A short article and really worth your time!
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API Question!
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
@AudreyCodes and @DavidPham, what are your favorite APIs? I do like the Facebook API.
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The Female Entrepreneur: The Lack of Women Founding Startups
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
Yes, why not? What do you think, Natasha?
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
React is becoming more and more the new language now! Do you know React?
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How did you first get into coding?
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
Hey ladies, just wanted to tell you that you can share your coding stories with our international audience if you want. We have a fabulous Women in Tech initiative at JAXenter.com. Here's an example: https://jaxenter.com/dawn-newton-careers-women-133911.html Here's my email address in case you want to participate in this project: [email protected]
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
A fun article I read – something that should set a precedent!
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
NASA's advancements to space tech for colonization in the future. Great read!
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
Really interesting read on the Verge about Facebook.
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
Interesting read I found on diversity.
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
I loved building Mogul using Ruby on Rails. :) What about you?
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
It depends on how much information or data you're loading. However, if you're only using HTML and CSS, the only data you can load that would take up any real time are images and videos. Faster loading times tend to only be an issue with games. If you want it to load faster though, one great technique is to load images only as needed. For example, if there are 10 images on a page and only 1 of the images will be seen at the top of the page when it loads, only load one image and as the user scrolls down, then let those images load. Or, instead of loading a video, load the thumbnail image of the video and if someone clicks, load the image. There are a lot of little tricks to things like this and it comes down to some fun innovative thinking.
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
A little something to think about.
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
A great article I found while browsing the web. Abbas Suterwala explains how to improve your Android code by utilizing Kotlin, a general purpose language that works with Java bytecode.
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
If you want to learn HTML, CSS, and Javascript and just basically everything you'd need to know about web development, this site is perfect http://www.w3schools.com/ . It's got great examples and is basically a how to guide for all those languages as well as several other ones common in web development, such as sql. However, I'd highly recommend trying out Ruby on Rails as well. It's an amazing language to build a site in.
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
This is really cool Natasha. I wish there were similar opportunities on the east coast especially by public schools. Are you a part of santa clara county? Have you taken any of tge courses?
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Javascript Framework Question
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Irvine, CA, United States Author of "Girls With Dreams"Top Reply
Use a framework like jQuery. You don't learn anything particularly insightful by struggling with the somewhat baroque, inconsistent, and incompatible APIs that jQuery (or any other decent framework) abstracts over. You'll still be using the same language, you'll just be using nicer, more portable APIs on top of it. As you get more experienced, you'll find situations that your framework doesn't cover, or in which you need to extend your framework. At that point you can start dealing with the actual APIs that the browsers expose, and the incompatibilities and inconsistencies that dealing with them entails. For very simple noodling around with , you can frequently get a way with raw JS without too much trouble, as the browsers that support canvas also tend to be more consistent with each other (though the APIs will be a lot clunkier than what jQuery provides). Of course, you could use excanvas for emulation IE, at which point you have to deal with the incompatibilities again.
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