Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Alyssa Nicholl
John Papa
Joe Eames

Special Guests: Shmuela Jacobs, Samantha Rhodes, and Bonnie BrennanIn this episode of Adventures in Angular, the panel talks to Shmuela Jacobs, Samantha Rhodes, and Bonnie Brennan about ngGirls. ngGirls is an organization that provides a free one-day workshop with volunteer mentors who will teach them Angular basics. It was inspired by Django Girls and provides this type introduction to programming for women who want to learn about Angular. They are really passionate about bringing ngGirls all around the world so that women everywhere can be introduced to both Angular and programming.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

What is ngGirls?
Started in November 2016 in Israel
Django Girls
Helps build motivation in young girls to keep programming
Angular
ngConf and Google I/O events coming up
What is an ideal mentor?
What does the curriculum look like?
Angular Bootcamp
Do you have a prep pack ahead of time?
How do you sign up to be a mentor?
Do you encourage people to organize their own ngGirls?
How do you get the word out about the conferences?
Using twitter
How much experience do you need for ngGirls?
They need more girls mentors
Even if you’ve just started learning Angular, sign up as a mentor!
And much, much more!

Links:

Picks:Charles

Black Mirror

Alyssa

Ready Player One Movie

Joe

“Here are the best programming languages to learn in 2018”

John

ng-AI Hackathon by Microsoft

Shmuela

Sam

ngConf

Bonnie

Special Guests: Bonnie Brennan, Samantha Rhodes, and Shmuela Jacobs.

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AiA 184: ngGirls with Shmuela Jacobs, Samantha Rhodes, and Bonnie Brennan