EP 62 November 16, 2015

Hello Ruby Linda Liukas

Linda Liukas identifies more with being a children’s author than a developer. She used to work for Codecademy, started Rails Girls, and most recently wrote, Hello Ruby, a book introducing programming to children.

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Linda Liukas

Children's Author Hello Ruby

Linda is the author and illustrator of Hello Ruby, a children’s picture book about the whimsical world of computers, as well as the founder of Rails Girls, a global movement to teach young women programming in over 260 cities. She loves Muji, Zelda Fitzgerald, software and sparkly things.

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Linda Liukas identifies more with being a children’s author than a developer. That might be because she’s spent a good amount of time helping others learn to code than actually coding herself. She used to work for Codecademy, started Rails Girls, and most recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for a book introducing programming to children. The campaign blew past it’s $10K goal, and reached over $380K. Linda talks to us about drawing and writing the book, Hello Ruby, and what she’s learned about the coding journey as she helps kids start their own.

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