Making sense of the Angular framework with Ng Girls Berlin
Last month I had the pleasure of attening the Ng Girls Berlin workshop. Though I had previously done a few courses on Angular.js I had only peeked at one or two Angular projects and was keen to know more about how the platform worked and how to build projects with it. The tutorial which we followed led me to creating my first web app in Angular, you can check it out the final result here.
Ng Girls was inspired by Django Girls (a similar programme —I have another blog coming on that workshop) when founder Shmuela attended Django Girls Berlin in 2014 After completing her studies she knew she wanted to give back to the community. The first ever Ng Girls was held in her home town Tel Aviv in November of 2016.
The programme aims to introduce women to the world of technology and increase diversity within the Industry. They find Angular an approachable starting point and through the help of sponsors and volunteers offer women a safe and frienly enviroment to start their tech journey and offer a connection to the local tech community.
Sponsors at the 2018 Berlin event included Angular Berlin, SinnerSchrader and Twilio. Child care was provided at the event and also food and drinks for all participants. We were split into small teams of two or three and assigned a coach. I was paired with Maja a self employed web developer from Slovenia who lives in Berlin. Our coach Vincent was incredibly patient and happy to answer any questions while we worked through the tutorial. He even showed me how to put my code into a Docker container before we wrapped up.
Having now made one project with Angular I feel much more confident to start another and far more familiar with the code base. The project I will work on for RGSoC is written in Angular JS so this has definitley come in handy. I highly reccomend applying to Ng Girls workshops not only do they give you confidence and provide a platform to work with a mentor it is also inspiring to meet others in the field and hear about they path into tech.
For the latest workshops you can check their website http://ng-girls.org/
If you would like to host or run one in your city, it is a fantastic way to support diversity and offer an under represented community the chance to get started with programming. For information on how to do so follow the link above.
