Ep. 61 - Brianna and Brianna's Mother (Brianna Fugate)
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English - November 09, 2015 05:00 - 1 hour - 80.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 567 ratingsTechnology News Tech News technology development programming developer tech ruby on rails web careers programmer internet Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
When she goes to events, she no longer writes her own name on her name tag. Instead, she writes “Brianna’s Mother”. Ronique, the proud single-mother of a coder talks to us about how she supports and advocates for her daughter, and what it’s been like to see her only child take advantage of the many tech opportunities she’s come by. Brianna tells us how she switched from being pre-med to computer science, and got over the intimidation of sitting next to kids who’d discovered coding long before she knew what programming was all about. She tells us her inspiring stories of working at the White House under US CTO Megan Smith, and coding alongside Googlers, all as a college undergrad. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Spelman College Black Girls Code Kimberly Bryant Kaya Thomas The Pedagogy of the Oppressed Megan Smith Codeland Conf Codeland 2019
When she goes to events, she no longer writes her own name on her name tag. Instead, she writes “Brianna’s Mother”. Ronique, the proud single-mother of a coder talks to us about how she supports and advocates for her daughter, and what it’s been like to see her only child take advantage of the many tech opportunities she’s come by. Brianna tells us how she switched from being pre-med to computer science, and got over the intimidation of sitting next to kids who’d discovered coding long before she knew what programming was all about. She tells us her inspiring stories of working at the White House under US CTO Megan Smith, and coding alongside Googlers, all as a college undergrad.
Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Spelman College Black Girls Code Kimberly Bryant Kaya Thomas The Pedagogy of the Oppressed Megan Smith Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Brianna FugateBrianna is a computer science major at Spelman College.