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Re:Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons C... by enra on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @11:53AM (#2917069)
The only criticism I've had from her is that she doesn't know what to do with what she's learned

This is something we try to do with Rails Girls (http://railsgirls.com).

We don't try to teach girls (or people) to program that much, but make them realize that they could build something and give them the first experience of creating or developing something.

Like how you go from idea to concept, from mockups to implementation and from application to actually shipping it.

(We're planning organizing events in the US and around the world)

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