Django Girls Dublin

If you are a female and you want to learn how to make websites, we have good news for you! We are holding a one-day workshop for beginners! We want to give you an opportunity to learn how to program and become one of us - female programmers! Workshops are...

Django Girls Dublin April 23rd

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 At the end of April this year the First Django Girls Dublin event was hosted on the RTE premises. 

It was a really great, fun day with some really enthusiastic attendees. 

Thanks to our sponsors on the day @rte, @codinggrace @pythonireland @ThePSF @gitlab

Feedback from the day: 

What people like about the workshop: 

“Very hands-on, little to no lecture-style teaching and lots of practical work ”

“Everyone was friendly and helpful. Great experience”

“Open, Friendly learning environment, Coaches were great, helpful and approachable, Mix of candidates (diversity ) was great”

“This course gave me hope that I can do this!”

“I like that it gave me a time where I could focus on learning Django and that I felt so much more comfortable learning and going through the tutorial knowing that the coaches were there”

“It was not as scary as I thought”

“The facilitators and coaches were encouraging  the learning.  - working? up to keep the focus, even if everybody could go at their own pace. It was brilliant and I felt comfortable even if I had no background.”

“Hands-on relaxed knowledgeable coaches great atmosphere”

“I would highly recommend the workshop to anyone. I found the day very useful”

“Thanks a million for your useful training ”

“Would love to do some more!”

How the workshop contributes to attendee goals:

“Hoping to go into full stack dev in the future, this was my first experience with a coding language . I feel less intimidated now!”

“I want to set up my own website so this was a great start”

“Setup my own website for business”

“I need a blog & develop my website for work. Wow - this really helps!”

“I’m interested in improving my coding skills mainly in python but I think any tutorials help you to think more like a coder”

“It helps advance my career shift”

“Now I am more confident about my career path and the fact I would like to improve my python knowledge ”

“it is a basis for building a working knowledge of python plus a further foundation in software development/ coding /7 computer related areas I would not have formal training in! ”

“I want to improve my understanding of technological concepts and my English, it has contributed for my personal interesting in programmatics”

“I’m definitely more confident after this workshop. I’m looking forward to develop my knowledge of this project and gaining a better understanding of coding ”

What people attendees thought of the format of the workshop for the day:

“Well structure. As ever there aren’t enough hours in the day!”

“Excellent, Very Good Itinerary”

“It was very well organised with enough breaks during the workshop”

“Super, walkthrough chapters, breaks in between”

“Encourage me to attend more meetups and seminars”

“Excellent, Very Good pace, Very structured, Excellent content”

At the end of a long and busy day our attendees had learned a large amount and we’re very proud of what they accomplished 

What attendees learned on the day:

Some Python

Django 

Virtual Environment (this is Huge!)

Command Line

Using Code Editors 

Running files locally

HTML & CSS } Templating

HTTP Statuses!

Database Set-up

Stack Overflow resource

Stack Trace Debugging

Developer Tools

Following Documentation

GitHub (a little)

Hosting Deployment

Going forward:

We hope to do much more with the Django Girls Dublin chapter - more workshops and hackathons 

For this to happen we need support and sponsorship 

If you want to contribute and support our goal, please get it touch

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