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Session Topic: Programming Concepts 102: A deeper dive into JavaScript Join us for our monthly coding series, Coding & Cocktails. Women are invited to attend sessions to get an introduction to website building in a fun, laid-back atmosphere. Objects, fetching data and templates - oh my! The world of JavaScript is vast and this month we'll dive deeper into making your web applications interactive.  You'll also have time to practice your newly acquired JavaScript skills with support from our mentors!!…

Session Topic: Introduction to Package Managers Join us for our monthly coding series, Coding & Cocktails. Women are invited to attend sessions to get an introduction to website building in a fun, laid-back atmosphere. We'll discuss what a package is, what a package manager is and what it is like to interact with npm as a package manager.  You'll also have time to get hands-on practice working with a package manager with support from our amazing mentors!! There will be…

Session Topic: Server-side APIs: Node.js, REST and SOAP Join us for our monthly coding series, Coding & Cocktails. Women are invited to attend sessions to get an introduction to website building in a fun, laid-back atmosphere. This month we'll talk about using JavaScript on the server-side, or back-end. We'll compare to front-end (aka client-side) JavaScript and talk about API protocols and how to interact with them. We will practice using APIs with support from our fantastic mentors! There will be…

 Session Topic: Introduction to Single Page Applications Join us for our monthly coding series, Coding & Cocktails. Women are invited to attend sessions to get an introduction to website building in a fun, laid-back atmosphere. We'll discuss what a single page application is, how they work, and when to utilize them.  We'll also cover using the Angular framework to build a single page application (SPA) and you'll get to try out building your own SPA with support from our magnificant mentors!…

Session Topic: CodeJam **Please note the extended hours starting at 4 PM** Join us for our monthly coding series, Coding & Cocktails. Women are invited to attend sessions to get an introduction to website building in a fun, laid-back atmosphere. In our final session of the year, we set you up in a microenvironment that mimics a software development team in the wild. Working together with a mentor acting as the 'team lead,' your team of two or three will work…

Session Topic: The Glass | HTML & Front-End Architecture Join us for our monthly coding series, Coding & Cocktails. Women are invited to attend sessions to get an introduction to website building in a fun, laid-back atmosphere. HTML is the foundation of the web. It provides structure for web pages and helps you to build the page content. Front-end architecture is the organization of code and project files. The combination of these two concepts provides the structure and the bones of a…

The Garnish | Intro to CSS   Join us for our monthly coding series, Coding & Cocktails. Women are invited to attend sessions to get an introduction to website building in a fun, laid-back atmosphere. Once we build out the structure of our website we want to make it look visually appealing. CSS helps us put the "pretty" in our web pages -- the same way a mint leaf or paper umbrella spruces up our favorite drinks. Join us to…

The Rocks | Command Line & Version Control   Join us for our monthly coding series, Coding & Cocktails. Women are invited to attend sessions to get an introduction to website building in a fun, laid-back atmosphere. We will get comfortable using the command line, a powerful tool developers use to work efficiently, to navigate the filesystem in a text-based way. We will also learn about version control and how it helps developers maintain code history and work collaboratively. These…