Date:Monday, February 5 at 5 PM
Location: TBD
This is will be a short interest meeting to share a little bit about the club and hear what types of activities, workshops and speakers you would like to see this semester. We are planning events from startups, workshops about cool technologies and more. Please email softwareengineeringclub@to
wson.edu if you have any thoughts or questions.
Maryland Center for Women in Computing is hosting the Diversity in Computing Summit, a one-day workshop designed for all advocates of underrepresented groups in computing fields. Through informative workshops and dynamic speakers, they will emphasize inclusive computing–efforts that address the positive impact that underrepresented groups have and will continue to have on the future of technology.
Source: 2018 Diversity Summit | Maryland Center For Women In Computing (MCWIC)
Ace your next interview by solving these code challenges, which cover important concepts for any coding interview. Each challenge includes a video tutorial to help you learn how to solve it.
Come hear Bethany Meyer, Co-Founder and CTO of CourseArc speak about entrepreneurship as a CTO at 5 pm on February 19, 2018 in YR459. She was nominated as CTO of the Year in 2017 and spoke at Baltimore Innovation Week.
Bethany Meyer taught herself to code as a teenager and went on to earn a B.S. in Information Systems from UMBC in 2008. Before starting a company, she worked at T. Rowe Price and MGH while freelancing on the side. In 2015, she made the jump into entrepreneurship, and co-founded CourseArc, a digital content creation platform for online courses. Bethany has a passion for making people’s lives easier with technology and often speaks at HowGirlsCode events. RSVP HERE
Source: Bethany Meyer Speaks About Entrepreneurship as a CTO
Anyone can learn computer science. Make games, apps and art with code.
Source: Code.org – Learn on Code Studio
While most online resources do have some interactive tests or challenges you can take that allows you to actually code, some focus heavily on having you practice which I believe is the best way to get better at coding.
Source: Learn by Doing: The 8 Best Interactive Coding Websites
HackerRank released the first annual 2018 Developer Skills Report! For the first time ever, they surveyed their community of 3.2 million developers to get a pulse on the state of developer skills today. Over 39,000 developers shared their thoughts on what new skills they’re learning, how they evaluate employers, which languages and frameworks are their favorites, and much more.
Source: https://research.hackerrank.com/developer-skills/2018/
