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Resources for Middle School Girls to Learn Programming

Want to encourage a middle school girl to try programming? Here's a list of free or low-cost online courses, programs offered through schools, and local West Michigan resources.

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The Culture Cycle: A Model for Understanding Company Culture

The Culture Cycle is a model for understanding how culture evolves over time within a group. Individuals, interactions, institutions, and ideas all come together to shape norms and

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Coding Bootcamps Have a Fundamental Problem

What if coding bootcamps are preparing motivated, hard-working people only for slow-moving, creativity-free software jobs at large companies?

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A Moral Justification for Diversity In Tech – Why “Good for Business” Isn’t Good Enough

If "we value diversity" means simply "we'll be more successful if we're less homogenous," we're valuing people for their other-ness—not their skill.

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Ask these Questions when Applying Machine Learning to People

As machine learning techniques are increasingly used to make predictions about people, there are a few big ethical questions we need to be asking ourselves.

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Developing Accessible Software: Better Navigation with Skip Links

Employing skip links in your app is one of the simplest ways to improve your software's accessibility for users working with assistive technologies.

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Designing Accessible Software – Breaking Down WCAG 2.0

Here, I'll break down the four categories of guidelines in WCAG 2.0 and offer some suggestions on how to plan for and evaluate them when designing software.

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Building Accessible Software – a Primer

19% of the population reports having a disability. When creating software, ensuring its accessibility is the right—and smart—thing to do.

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Why FIRST Robotics is My New Favorite Sport

There are five seconds left on the clock, and the Blue Alliance is down by two points. Machine 3536 picks up a ball and speeds toward the opponent's castle.

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Volunteering at Hour of Code

Our job was to encourage and guide students through what was, for many of them, their first formal introduction to computer science.

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Why Software Craftsmanship Needs to be Financially Viable

The de facto method of career advancement in our industry is organizational fracture, creating widespread mediocrity and inefficiency.

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Six Months with an Apple Watch

How well my Apple Watch has performed as "a watch, a new way to connect with each other, and a comprehensive health and fitness companion."

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