Heather Payne

I’d start by taking a couple of Ladies Learning Code workshops, just to make sure that I enjoy coding enough to become decent at it. I’d probably start with HTML & CSS and then…

Yesterday, Bitmaker Labs announced via their website that they have discontinued operating their web development program. This action is due to an ongoing investigation from the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU), which may have led…

As part of Ladies Learning Code’s partnership with Microsoft this year, we’re working on helping beginners to launch apps in the Windows 8 app store. Part 1 of our effort involved workshops in Toronto, Vancouver and…

One of the best things about this video is the fact that I didn’t know it existed until it was already posted on the internet. Since September, Girls Learning Code has been expertly run by Laura Plant and Ashley Lewis — I’m…

Last summer, we ran a week of Girls Learning Code summer camp that focused on game design. Once again hosted by Mozilla, the camp gave 40 girls the chance to collaborate in teams to design and develop their own platformer game using Stencyl. We split the girls into groups based on their…

On August 19th, 2011, I wrote a blog post that easily became the most widely-read thing I’ve ever written. It was a surpise to me — I wrote the thing really quickly, late at night, as a reaction to a blog post I came across called “Date an…