Code for Progress

09/25/2017

Check out Code for Progress Community Learning Series Alum, Larry Williams Jr's UnionBase - brining digital innovation to the labor movement:

“The limits of the labor movement don’t make sense to my generation”

01/20/2017

JOB POSTING: Our amazing friends at Fugue DC are seeking a Senior Web Engineer. Great place to work. Please apply if interested and help spread the word!

https://fugue.co/careers/551217/

Fugue builds, optimizes, and enforces cloud infrastructure, continuously and automatically. Declare your cloud. Let Fugue automate the rest.

01/11/2017

The film Hidden Figures is inspiring a new generation of young female coders of color.

The film Hidden Figures is inspiring a new generation of young female coders of color. NPR checks in with some teenagers who like the movie.

01/10/2017

We had a front end workshop this week taught by Andrew M. & Leslie L. from Fugue DC! Learning React and Javascript. Grateful for volunteers.

01/03/2017

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"Stuck in the Shallow End is a story of how inequality is reproduced in America—and how students and teachers, given the necessary tools, can change the system."

An investigation into why so few African American and Latino high school students are studying computer science reveals the dynamics of inequality in American schools.

01/02/2017

Reflection of breakthrough technologies of 2016.

Find out how new ideas like reusable rockets, immune engineering, and Tesla’s Autopilot have progressed.

12/15/2016

12/08/2016

http://www.recode.net/2016/12/1/13805948/first-round-capital-founders-survey-2016-diversity-problem-tech

And that’s a problem.

12/06/2016

"It’s okay to not know everything.
Just go for it.
Don’t be afraid."

We had 2 guest speakers visit CFP recently: Danielle Cummings & Rose Robinson from Black Women in Computing! Thank you so much for your work!

12/01/2016

And Mayor Bowser's administration has some ideas for how to get there. It's all laid out in the city's first ever “Inclusive Innovation Report.”