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Girls gonna code

Programming is not just a guy thing. Rails Girls Warsaw wants to prove it this weekend. Girls and women are going to learn building web applications with Ruby on Rails.

Programming is not just a guy thing. Rails Girls Warsaw wants to prove it this weekend. Girls and women are going to learn building web applications with Ruby on Rails.

The idea is to help girls to get familiar with the technology and equip them with the skills needed to create and code  their own web applications. All under the supervision of professional coaches and in a warm and creative atmosphere.

Rails Girls was born in Finland and nowadays their workshops are held all around the world. They come to Warsaw for the second time. And for the second time the event is supported by TouK.

Some immpresions from the first edition you can find here.

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