When Chicago-based web designer and developer Jen Myers was first learning to code, it was difficult to feel that she belonged in the male-dominated field.
Myers was frequently the lone woman in her computer science classes, creating a sometimes uncomfortable dynamic. And as she began her career, she had few role models of a similar background to whom she could turn.
More than a decade later, however, Myers not only makes her living at coding but is creating new opportunities for other women — and their daughters — to get a taste of the field through her unique Code and Cupcakes workshop.
The inaugural Code and Cupcakes workshop in October was born out of Myers’ experience teaching other women to code through the group Girl Develop It, in addition to instructing her own 9-year-old daughter, who was eager to learn HTML code herself after sitting in on some of her mother’s classes. And the cupcakes? Well, why not?
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