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Globally Connecting Women in Java Technology

Coding Dojos are inspired by the Socratic Circle, a learning method that involves questions and debate between participants and teacher, illuminating different points of views.

Come learn and practice TDD (Test-Driven Development) with FitNesse, an acceptance testing framework that enables you to communicate progress with business and customers, while improving your programming skills.

You are welcomed to join us on Friday evening, June 18, in the Amsterdam Public Library (Openbaar Bibliotheek Amsterdam) – next to Amsterdam Central Station – for a coding dojo with a focus on TDD with FitNesse.

We are very happy to have Marc Evers from QWAN and Agile Holland lead us through this dojo.

We will start at the La Place upstairs (7th floor) for food at 18:00 and will move to the meeting room (6th floor) to start at 19:00 and go until 22:00 at the latest.

We ask a voluntary 10 Euro participation fee to cover expenses.
Please sign up each attendee individually so we can track attendance.

Space is limited to 20 participants – so first come first serve!

The Amsterdam Public Library is easily accessible by public transport or car.
For those who want to drive, Parkeergarage Oosterdok is the closest parking garage.

From the Devnology developer community (Original Dutch below):

Computers were once women. It was commonly known that women were better and more accurate calculators, and so they were employed for calculations at insurance companies or at military installations.

Women were also the first programmers, at least the visible ones: they were walking over the ballustrade of the ENIAC to put all the switches in the right setting according to a schema, with which the computer was programmed.

Read more on their site: Re-inventing Programming
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Computers waren ooit vrouwen. Het was algemeen bekend dat vrouwen beter en nauwkeuriger konden rekenen, dus werden zij ingezet om rekenwerk te doen bij verzekeraars, of bij militaire installaties.

Vrouwen waren ook de eerste programmeurs, tenminste de zichtbare: zij liepen over de ballustrade van de ENIAC om de schakelaars volgens een schema in te stellen, waarmee de computer werd geprogrammeerd.

Lees meer op de website: Re-inventing Programming