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By: Tiisetso Normaline Modubu It’s a great time to be alive, especially right now with how rapid the tech space is accelerating. I noticed the gap and a huge role I’d need to play within this space and acquire opportunities to take part in making a change not only on a global scale but within […]
Greetings GirlCode community! We recently sat down with one of the developers from our partner agency, Black Beard Technology to find out more about her role and work in the industry. What is your name and what is your job title? My name is Willemien Van Tonder. My title is developer and business analyst at […]
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by Bongi Maje Women have always had to prove that they are just as equal and just as capable. Woman have always had to go the extra mile to show that they are worthy or that they are just as smart, but it’s quite funny because the greatest saying is “behind every […]
Lightbulbs: An App to address The UN goal of Good Health & Living. Team Lightbulbs built a solution designed to address food security in South Africa, in response to the recent listeriosis outbreak. Their solution aims to place more knowledge in the hands of the citizens and consumers, whilst encouraging retailers and producers to work […]
by: Lihle Naphakade I applied to the VAC work programme because I was looking for experience in the real working environment. And so I went into the programme with a mindset to learn about (and get as much as I can out of) the actual working environment, including understanding how the company works. I found […]
I applied to the vac work programme because I wanted to gain real world experience. I really did not know what to expect, so I just wanted to get whatever I could out of it, yet it surpassed my expectations totally. I assumed that we’d be given a project to work on and that is […]
I was born in a small township called Boitekong in Rustenburg, where no one I knew owned a computer. There were very few sources of entertainment for us growing up. One of my favourite hobbies was picking up any paper with text on it and reading it out loud, regardless of what the topic was […]
Imagine my excitement when I heard we were going to Microsoft San Francisco, the mastermind behind Windows and well Microsoft itself (amongst all their other great creations). I was ecstatic as I could not believe I was going to visit their base, The Silicon Valley Office. The actual office we visited was just a 20 […]
The GirlCode trip San Francisco sponsored by Standard Bank, was truly an amazing trip in every sense. We arrived in the USA on the Sunday afternoon of the 15 of October. Tired and a bit jet lagged we went straight to bed, in order to shake off the jet lag that came about from travelling […]
Imagine our excitement when we found out that we could participate in the GirlCode hackathon on the other side of the country. Our trip to go and participate was all sponsored by our Information Systems department at UCT. We left on a Friday afternoon with enough time to get a sense of Braamfontain as some […]
The most popular question for any beginner who has just started learning to code is that which is the best programming language to learn for a beginner like me? To start with, it can be a little bit daunting for a first-timer considering that there are many different programming languages available to choose from. Not […]
