This morning littleBits released their Space Kit. I’ve been on the board of littleBits since last year and am just in awe of what the team, led by Ayah Bdeir, is cranking out. Ayah is an example of an amazing female entrepreneur and CEO. I first met her via Joanne Wilson who wrote about here here. I hope to work with her for a long time.
Seeing the launch inspired me to go dig up a list of resourced for girls learning to code. Ever since I first got involved in National Center for Women & Information Technology, I’ve been deep in the problem of underrepresentation of women in computer science and entrepreneurship. Lucy Sanders, the CEO of NWCIT, has taught me a huge amount about this and I’ve worked closely with her as chair of the organization to try to make a difference around this issue.
I regularly get asked for resources for girls who are interested in learning how to write software. Following is a list curated by Lucy.
While many of these apply to boys as well, it’s a great list if you have a daughter who is interested in learning more about coding. It’s by no means comprehensive – if you have other suggestions, please leave them in the comments.
Girl and Women Specific
- NCWIT Resources
- Girl Geeks
- ACM-W
- Grace Hopper
- DotDiva
Concepts
- MathManiaCS
- CSUnplugged
- CSE4K12
- Math Magic
- Cut the Knot
- Code.org
- CS 4 Fun
Learn to Code
- Khan Academy
- Code Academy
- Code Academy after school resources
- Learn Street
- Udacity
- Coursera
- Computer Science for Everyone
- Treehouse
- edX
- Code School
- Software Engineer Insider
Intro to Computer Science
- ALICE
- Storytelling ALICE
- SCRATCH
- Kodu
- LEGO robotics
- Agent Cubes-in-a-box
- Globaloria
- Bootstrap
- Etoys
- CargoBot
- AppInventor
- LightBot
- Hopscotch
- The New Boston