HOW TO: CODE LIKE A GIRL
SEAN YO
CO-EDITOR – CODELIKEAGIRL.IO
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HI! I’M SEAN.
• I work in technology
• I got my first computer in 1988
• I built my first web page in 1996
• I got my first email address in 1998
• I am diversity advocate and champion
• I’m especially interested in digital
accessibility and women in technology
• I teach Web Foundations at Conestoga
• I’ve travelled to Kathmandu and Indonesia
to train web development to not for profits
• I have co-founded Hackademy and Hive
Waterloo Region
• I receive 40 under 40 for my work in
building online communities
• I was in Ms. Watters’ wedding party and
she’s the godmother of my daughters
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WHY AM I HERE?
• I’m also the co-editor of Code Like A Girl
• We are a publication on Medium.com
• Almost 19k subscribers and now in the Medium top 100
• We celebrate the changing perceptions of women in technology
• I recently wrote an article “Will you Help Us Build Our Community”
• I went to Grand River – GO RENS
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WHY AM I HERE?
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LIKE A GIRL?
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THE BRAVE NEW DIGITAL WORLD
• Mitchell Baker, Chair of Mozilla
Foundation
• Elegant Consumers
• Joyful Creator
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STEM CLIFF
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STEM CLIFF
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STEM CLIFF
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STEM CLIFF
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MOLLY HOLZSHLAG
• This is my friend Molly
• Fairy Godmother of the Web
• Champion of the Open Web
• Written 35+ books on the web
• Invited Expert @ W3C
• Worked with Microsoft, AOL,
eBay, BBC and many more
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THE WORLD
NEEDS MOLLY
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CARMEN ZANNIER
• This is my friend Carmen
• PHd in CompSci – Agile
Software Development
• Dev Manager at a global
software company
• Specializes in Data & Analytics
• Oh – and she climbs mountains
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THE WORLD
NEEDS CARMEN
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THE WORLD
NEEDS YOU
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THE WORLD NEEDS YOU
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THE WORLD NEEDS YOUR GENIUS
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THE WORLD NEEDS YOUR BRILLIANCE
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THE WORLD NEEDS YOUR AWESOME
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YOU
MATTER
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•This is my friend Angela Maiers
•#YouMatter Campaign
•Choose2Matter.com
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UNLESS YOU MULTIPLY YOURSELF BY THE SPEED
LIGHT SQUARED…THEN
YOU
ENERGY
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WHEN YOU HEAR
SOMETHING
DIFFERENT…REMEMBER
YOU MATTER
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ONLY ONE IN THE
ROOM
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MYSELF AND ALL THE
OTHER GIRLS IN MY
PHYSICS DEGREE
COURSE THROWING
OUR HATS IN THE AIR
FOR OUR
GRADUATION
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THINGS AREN’T
ALWAYS WHAT THEY
SEEM
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YOU CAN SAY YES TO
YOURSELF AND
OPPORTUNITIES
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YOU ARE IN
CHARGE OF
YOU
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SO…HOW DO YOU CODE
LIKE A GIRL?
THE SAME WAY YOU DO
EVERYTHING ELSE
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SO…HOW DO YOU CODE LIKE A GIRL?
•https://codelikeagirl.io/
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SO…HOW DO YOU CODE LIKE A GIRL?
http://hivewr.ca/programs-and-events/hackergrrlz/
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SO…HOW DO YOU CODE LIKE A GIRL?
•http://hivewr.ca/
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LET’S KEEP TALKING!
Seanyo.ca
@seanyo
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