Coding – Frontline Club

Screening: Code – Debugging the Gender Gap + Q&A

Julianne Rooney — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:44:49 +0000

This screening will be followed by a discussion with computer scientist Dr. Sue Black.

At a time when the US tech sector outpaces the overall growth of the employment market, CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap asks the important question: where are all the women? This revealing and uplifting documentary examines the reasons why more girls are not seeking opportunities in computer science and explores how cultural mindsets, stereotypes, educational hurdles and sexism all play a role in widening this employment gap.

Director Robin Hauser Reynolds opens by pointing out that in the early days of programming, women dominated the field. This was in no small part because male engineers thought this “soft” work was relatively trivial compared to building machines. In the decades that followed, more and more women entered computing; by the mid-1980s, women made up more than 35 percent of computer science graduates. Then began a falloff that persists to this day, with women making up only 15 percent of computer science majors in the U.S.

Expert voices from the worlds of technology, psychology, science, and education are intercut with inspiring stories of diverse women who are engaged in the fight to challenge complacency in the tech industry and to have their voices heard. CODE aims to inspire change in mindsets, in the educational system, in startup culture and in the way women see themselves in the field of coding.

Director: Robin Hauser Reynolds
Producers: Robin Hauser Reynolds, Staci Hartman, Christie Herring
Year: 2015
Running time: 80′

Dr. Sue Black was named one of the top 50 women in tech in Europe in 2015 and is an award-winning computer scientist, radical thinker and passionate social entrepreneur. She has regular tech columns in both The Guardian and The Daily Mirror.

Coding & data journalism resources for journalists

Al Willmott — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:30:57 +0000

Here are several free resources that could be useful for journalists interested in online media.
In the data journalism realm, there is the Data Journalism Handbook:

School of Data provides courses in how to source and visually present data.

A final resource to watch and try is from the Codecademy startup, which provides free tutorials in how to use HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Python and several APIs including YouTube.

Coding for Journalists Sunday Course

Charlotte Cook — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 10:00:00 +0000

This one day course will begin a series of courses expanding upon common coding required throughout journalism and publishing.

The course will cover the basics of the following languages in the context of online publishing:

HTML
CSS
PHP
and basic Javascript

The course will also explore the various online media tools most useful to journalism and the best methods to implement and adapt them to your requirements.

The course will be taught by Mark Simpkins.

Mark has worked online for the last 15 years, he has been a technical project manager at the BBC from 2001 until last year. He is currently Creative Technologist for Spring Digital. He has worked for AKQA, Accenture and Moonfruit and has been involved in MySociety and related projects. He blogs over at http://www.geekyoto.com/

DVD Authoring Saturday Course

Charlotte Cook — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:00:00 +0000

Learn to encode video, and author and burn bespoke DVDs with Apple’s Compressor and DVDSP 4.

This one day course will cover all of the key stages of creating fully authored DVDs.

– Using compressor to create mpeg 2 DVD files

– DVDSP Workspace

– DVD preferences

– Creating “first play” DVDs

– Creating Menus and sub-menus

– Creating Slideshows

– Managing connections

– Utilising templates

– Simulator

– Building and burning

The course’s emphasis is on hands on practice, with each participant having their own imac work station with all necessary software and test media.

You’ll complete the course confident and assured to create DVDs for any situation. The course assumes no prior knowledge of DVDSP or Compressor.

Applications covered;

DVDSP

Compressor

MpegStreamClip

FULLY BOOKED: Coding for Journalists Saturday Course – WordPress

Charlotte Cook — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:00:00 +0000

This one day course will look in-depth at WordPress as a tool for journalists. The course will cover setting up WordPress in different ways, creating and adapting design elements and integrating plugins and elements to create a site.

What We Will Cover:

* The difference between WordPress.com and Installing your own: What you can/can’t do.

* Installing WordPress: What you need and how to get it running on your own server.

* How the templates work: We will examine the templates in wordpress, how to change them, look at available themes and how to write your own.

* Plugins: What are the key plugins you should get running with your install.

* Maintaining: How to upgrade, backup, restore and generally run wordpress.

At the end of the day you will have worked through the key steps in installing, configuring and starting a wordpress install. You will be comfortable knowing how the templates work together to publish content. You will be able to install, maintain and configure plugins and also generally maintain a full wordpress install.

Notes and checklists will be provided. If you have your own laptop you will have a fully installed version to experiment with / develop with.

We will be targeting a Mac/Unix based platform, if you work with Windows please let us know before the day.

The course will also explore the various online media tools most useful to journalism and the best methods to implement and adapt them to your requirements.

The course will be taught by Mark Simpkins.

Mark Simpkins has worked online for the last 15 years, he has been a technical project manager at the BBC from 2001 until last year. He is currently Creative Technologist for Spring Digital. He has worked for AKQA, Accenture and Moonfruit and has been involved in MySociety and related projects. He blogs over at http://www.geekyoto.com/

Full Price £150/ Freelance rate £100
Saturday 20th August
10am – 6pm

For any enquiries please email training@www.beta.frontlineclub.com