Opening Keynote - Is it too late to learn how to program?
summary
A self-taught developer learns Objective-C and Swift at 51 through meetups and a bootcamp, faces repeated Apple rejections, and fixes compatibility bugs with mentor help; a mobile app launched as The Purple Pocketbook (renamed PEVO) actually ships and targets domestic violence survivors; community numbers and anecdotes land — 80% novice turnout at a women hackathon and industry stats like less than 1% of mobile developers are women — plus WWDC and documentary recognition.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:17Big Nerd Ranch
- 8:22WWDC
- 11:27Apple
- 11:54Interview
- 19:05Black Women in Tech
- 20:30Historical Data
- 21:16Ada Lovelace
- 21:46Jennifer Jenkins Bartek
- 22:05Grace Harper
- 22:27Catherine Johnson
- 24:31Unconscious Bias
- 26:39Statistics
- 27:36Resumes
- 29:30Why are women not being promoted
- 32:26Not listening to womens ideas
- 34:01How many women are working in your group
- 35:58What can we do
- 36:15Men cant be the change
- 37:30Women need us
- 38:41Be our advocate
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