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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, using NPM as a package manager, what package managers are used for and how to use them along with practicing with support from our awesome mentors! There will be lots of guidance and support for those with no coding experience so come…

Session Topic: Server-side APIs: Node.js, REST & 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 JavaScript and talk about API protocols and how to interact with them. We will practice using server-side APIs with support from our awesome mentors! There will be lots…

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 Angular2 framework to build a single page application and more along with practice with support from our awesome mentors! There will be lots of guidance and…

Session Topic: Cocktail Camp ***Please note the extended hours starting at 4pm through 9pm*** 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 to build a web site from scratch using whatever tools you feel comfortable using. Alternatively, you can also work towards making a contribution to an open source…

Session Topic: Introduction to HTML HTML is the foundation of the web.  It provides structure for our web pages. Join us to learn about what tags and elements are, how to structure your page and why all of this matters! You'll also get to try building out a web page with HTML on your own! There will be lots of guidance and support for those with no coding experience so come join the fun!  No coding experience necessary (we mean…

Session Topic: Introduction to CSS 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. Join us to learn about different selector types, how to apply styles your page and why all of this matters! You'll also get to try styling a web page with CSS yourself! (With support from our awesome mentors of course!) There will be lots of guidance and support…

Session Topic: Introduction to Command Line 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 talk about what the command line is, what to use it for, how to use it, some common commands and get you some practice with support from awesome mentors! There will be lots of guidance and support for those with no coding experience so come…

Session Topic: Introduction to 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'll discuss version control basics, why we need it and how to use Git and GitHub along with practicing with support from our magnificent mentors! There will be lots of guidance and support for those with no coding experience so come join the fun! No coding…