This booth was made possible with the support of AWS.
Hey, CodeLand 2022 🙋♀️ !
We hope you’re enjoying this gathering of early-career software developers as much as we are. As an industry, it’s so important that we empower, support, encourage, and celebrate the next generation of female technical leaders. It is also important to bridge the gender gap in tech by empowering women and girls with the technical skills they need to scale their career goals.
She Code Africa is thrilled to be at CodeLand as an exhibiting community. We were offered an exhibiting sponsor (made possible by CodeLand sponsors) in order to connect with attendees at this conference and spread our message. We think this message will be valuable to many of you. Thank you for stopping by our digital booth!
About She Code Africa
She Code Africa is a non-profit organization, with the largest community of women in tech in Africa. We focus on celebrating and empowering young girls and women in technology across Africa by providing a variety of benefits for our members including:
- Community Support - Networking opportunities (both virtual and in-person)
- Technical growth-monitoring resources
- Mentorship programs
- Technical peer pairing for 1:1 professional guidance
Become a She Code Africa Queen
Do you identify as a girl/woman? Our community is a safe space of over 15,000 women in tech across Africa. Join us today
Learn more about She Code Africa
Kindly visit our website.
Join or Start a She Code Africa Chapter
If you are a girl or woman living in Africa and are interested in joining one of our city/campus chapters or thinking of starting a She Code Africa chapter in your city/campus, learn more here.
Make a donation
If you and/or your employer are interested in supporting the work we do to empower the women and girls across Africa, kindly you can do so here.
Partner with us
Work hand-in-hand with She Code Africa to achieve our goal of reaching more women in technology across Africa. Learn more by emailing us.
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We’d love to hear from you in the comments below! Since the CodeLand audience represents a variety of backgrounds and experiences that could benefit the women and girls in Africa that our organization serves, we’d love to know…
What is the number one piece of advice you’d give to a young person learning to code?
If you are a young person learning to code yourself, we’d still love to hear what wisdom you’ve already acquired in the comments!
Thank you for stopping by the She Code Africa booth at CodeLand!
A HUGE thank you to AWS for sponsoring She Code Africa’s booth at CodeLand. Their generous support has allowed us to show up here today and connect with all of you. ❤️
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Your coding knowledge builds over time and experience so never give up! It’s okay to relearn concepts. Bit by bit, you will make progress and get to where you want to go.
Progress over perfection 💯💯
Thank you for sharing.
I am an African living in Canada .. I would love to see how i can help out with she code Africa .. #onelove
Hello Ifo, it’s so nice of you to want to contribute to the work we do at She Code Africa.
For donations and partnerships, you can check out our website: shecodeafrica.org/donate-partner
If you’d want to reach out to us directly for partnership, you can do so via partnership@shecodeafrica.org.
We look forward to hearing from you.
I graduated from Uganda in an I.T degree (and there were CS and Software Eng. students in my class too) but unfortunately it was quite evident that the number of female classmates was significantly lower :-(
I believe that the work She Code Africa is doing is very impactful and essential in promoting more females in tech especially in Africa🌍
The number one piece of advice I'd give to a young person learning to code is to find community. Learning to code can be really hard, frustrating and it's easy to give up but with a kind & supportive community💞 you can get through to the other end and have access to opportunities to break into tech. Especially with the many problems we face in Africa like electricity, internet, resource access and fewer career opportunities it is even more important to find a community to hang-on to during those times when you almost feel like giving up.
Kudos to communities like Open Source Community Africa (OSCA) and She Code Africa for creating platforms that support devs on our fantastic continent❤
Thank you for your kind words, @hussain_codes ❤
One piece of advice I'd give to a young person learning to code is by doing. It takes practice to get better over time. Learning to code is a journey and whatever you do try your best to not compare yourself to others. We learn by asking questions.
It does worth every bit of the journey.
Thank you for sharing
My number one piece of advice i’d give to a young person learning to code is to find a tech community and become a member. This will help set you right in your tech career goal and highlight each next step you need to follow. I say this because, for the first 18 months of my tech career I was basically moving in circle. This was because I was self coding, and did not belong to any coding community. But now I'm a member of SheCodeAfrica, ingressive4good and many others and that has impacted so much to my tech journey
Thank you for sharing these kind and inspiring words, Emmanuella
For Code Newbies thinking of how to grow in tech communities, we shared this interesting piece from our NUR
Hello Ladies. It's great to be here again.
Welcome to Day 2
Hello Everyone and shout out to @omotola and team She Code Africa. I am excited to be here.
Welcome to Day 2
My advice is to not be afraid of failure, sometimes things that you learn may not be so clear but if you keep learning and trying, you will understand better and it will build confidence to learn much more.
I wanted to learn coding some years ago because I want to write a code that'll help children with special education needs to learn and express themselves well, but I couldn't because of all the challenges.
Then, last year I saw @SheCodeAfrica post on Twitter and that changed everything for me. I started following Ada and others, I started watching the tech space for learning opportunities.
Today, I am making progress and I have SheCodeAfrica to thank for that.
Thank you for investing in the future of Africa.
Hey Tolu, so glad to see She Code Africa was a part of your success story. Keep the light on 💡!
My advice to person learning coding is to learn for the right reasons. Don't learn because that's what's in vogue, learn because you want to add value to humanity, you want to solve problems.
If you learn because it's the in thing, you will drop out.🤣
I agree with you @toluloperobert . Be at your own pace!!
Do your research, go for the path you have passion for, find a mentor, and belong to a community.
Great post
Thank you Victoria!
Never give up on your dreams!
Powerful message in 6 words! Thank you Julia for sharing.
Being a part of She Code Africa has been an amazing decision.
So excited to be here 🤗❤
We’re so pleased to hear this Victoria. Good to know you’re having an amazing time.
I always say - you can't know what you don't know. Keep moving forward!
I agree 💯 Consistency is key!
My advice to anyone learning anything really, is don't let anyone tell you you can't do something. If you have 10 people telling you you'll fail and one person saying you can do it, listen to the ONE, even if that one person is just your own inner voice.
It's important to belong to a community that supports your goals, understand the field you are in, and shares the same vision with you.
It is one of the things we do at She Code Africa. To support, celebrate, and empower women in tech. Our community consists of over 15000 women and young girls who are willing and ready to be your inner voice.