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Code First Girls is a social enterprise that provides free coding courses to women and non-binary people across the UK, Ireland, the USA, Switzerland and the Netherlands. The organization helps companies recruit more women into the tech sector by connecting them with newly trained female developers.
Girls Who Code (also known as GWC) is an international nonprofit organization that aims to support and increase the number of women in computer science.Among its programs are a summer immersion program, a specialized campus program, after-school clubs, a college club, College Loops, [1] [2] and a series of books. [3]
CoderDojo is a global volunteer-led community of free programming workshops for young people. The movement began in 2011 as a grassroots organisation with each individual clubs (called a dojo , after the Japanese name for a hall or place for immersive learning, experiential learning) acting independently, with one founding principle: One Rule, Be Cool.
On 1 April 2018, Stack Exchange introduced a rubber duck avatar on their websites as a new "feature" called Quack Overflow as an April Fools' Day joke. The duck appeared at the bottom right corner of the browser viewport, and attempted to help visitors by listening to their problems and responding with solutions.
Code Year was a free incentive Codecademy program intended to help people follow through on a New Year's Resolution to learn how to program, by introducing a new course for every week in 2012. [32] Over 450,000 people took courses in 2012, [33] [34] and Codecademy continued the program into 2013. Even though the course is still available, the ...
[1] The European Girls’ Olympiad in Informatics , which was first held in 2021 was started with the goal to increscent female participants at IOI and other Informatics Olympiads. [ 7 ] In IOI 2017 held in Iran, due to not being able to participate in Iran, the Israeli students participated in an offsite competition organized by IOI in Russia.
Black Girls Code (BGC) is a nonprofit organization that focuses on engaging African-American girls and other youth of color with computer programming education to nurture their careers in tech. The organization offers computer programming and coding, as well as website, robot, and mobile application-building, with the goal of placing one ...
The ICDL / ECDL certification is a globally recognised information and communication technology (ICT) and digital literacy qualification. [ 3 ] In 1995 the ECDL certification programme was developed through a task force of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS) and was recommended by the European Commission High ...